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Bbacoyiannis
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 Posted - 08/07/2012 : 3:34:49 PM
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Good Day all, we are getting ready to fire up our first Dell PowerEdge serer with W2K8 R2 HyperV with 4 10gbe Ports.
What are your thoughts on NIC Teaming and VLAN for these ports?
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Bill Bacoyiannis
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Curt
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Posted - 08/07/2012 : 3:56:53 PM
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I take it you checked with the Switch vendor on these NICs.
I would run a sniff on them and look at the traffic they create.
Also remember that lots of hardware is fine with IPV4 but has issues with IPV6.
Also look for chimmey errors in the IP stack on the virtual NICS.
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Curt Spanburgh
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NMDANGE
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Posted - 08/07/2012 : 3:58:06 PM
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Is this a cluster or standalone host? Any iSCSI?
Any 1gb ports in addition to 10gb?
You should always have a dedicated NIC to the host OS. Hyper-V clusters have other needs like CSV, heartbeat, Live Migration.
Any NICs you can use for virtual switches, I'd team them all together with all the VLANs you need. Although for NIC Teaming, you might consider waiting a few weeks and using Windows Server 2012 instead. |
Michael D'Angelo
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joe_elway
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Posted - 08/08/2012 : 12:57:02 PM
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Oooh. Can you hold off for a month for WS2012 Hyper-V?
A) Are you using iSCSI? What does your SAN vendor say?
B) W2008 R2 cant't make full use of a single 10 GbE NIC. It gets around 60-70% utilization with various bits of tuning done.
C) You'd need to create a number of team interfaces from the team for the various host/cluster/etc functions and you'd need some kind of QoS that W2008 R@ doesnt have. I don't know if Hyper-V Network will support sharing an OEM team with other team interfaces. I know the Hyper-V Switch doesn't in WS2012 - converged fabrics do it differently in WS2012.
My advice .... wait if you can. Look at the converged fabrics posts on my blog for the WS2012 info.
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Pesos
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Posted - 08/08/2012 : 2:54:05 PM
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+1 for 2012
We just moved our production cluster to 2012 and it's LOADS easier to work with.
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Rambler
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Posted - 08/08/2012 : 7:23:01 PM
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JeffWouters
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Posted - 08/09/2012 : 02:09:15 AM
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| Wait for w2k12... teaming suddenly becomes easy ;-) |
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joe_elway
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Bbacoyiannis
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Posted - 08/16/2012 : 10:27:48 AM
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Thanks for replies all, sorry I have been away.
We are evaling 2012, but we are still on 2k8 r2,
how about vlan's in 2k8 r2 do they actually work? |
Bill Bacoyiannis
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Intel 10gbs NICS
