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Introducing 10Gbps Networking In Your Hyper-V Failover Cluster Environment
This is a 1st post in a series of 4. Here’s a list of all parts: Introducing 10Gbps Networking In Your Hyper-V Failover Cluster Environment (Part 1/4) Introducing 10Gbps With A Dedicated CSV & Live...
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Introducing 10Gbps With A Dedicated CSV & Live Migration Network (Part 2/4)
This is a 2nd post in a series of 4. Here’s a list of all parts: Introducing 10Gbps Networking In Your Hyper-V Failover Cluster Environment (Part 1/4) Introducing 10Gbps With A Dedicated CSV & Live...
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Introducing 10Gbps & Thoughts On Network High Availability For Hyper-V (Part...
This is a 3th post in a series of 4. Here’s a list of all parts: Introducing 10Gbps Networking In Your Hyper-V Failover Cluster Environment (Part 1/4) Introducing 10Gbps With A Dedicated CSV & Live...
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Hyper-V Cluster Nodes Upgrade: Zero Down Time With Intel VT FlexMigration
Well the oldest Hyper-V cluster nodes are 3 + years old. They’ve been running Hyper-V clusters since RTM of Hyper-V for Windows 2008 RTM. Yes you needed to update the “beta” versions to the RTM version...
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Introducing 10Gbps & Integrating It into Your Network Infrastructure (Part 4/4)
This is a 4th post in a series of 4. Here’s a list of all parts: Introducing 10Gbps Networking In Your Hyper-V Failover Cluster Environment (Part 1/4) Introducing 10Gbps With A Dedicated CSV & Live...
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Data Protection & Disaster Recovery in Windows 8 Server Hyper-V 3.0
The news coming in from the Build Windows conference is awesome. The speculation of the last months is being validated by what is being told and on top of that more goodness is thrown at us Hyper-V...
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Optimizing Live Migrations with a 10Gbps Network in a Hyper-V Cluster
Introduction You’ll find the following recommendations on line about optimizing Live Migrations: Use bigger pipes (10Gbps is better than 1Gbps) Enable Jumbo Frames Up the Receive Buffer to 8192...
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KB 2636573: Guest Crashes with Win2008R2 RTM/SP1 STOP 0xD1 in...
The BSOD I helped hunt down this bug and tested the private fix. Some months ago, during the summer of 2011, I was putting some new Hyper-V clusters under stress tests. You know, letting it work very...
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Windows 8 Hyper-V Cluster Beta Teaser
What does an MVP do after a day of traveling back home from the MVP Summit 2012 in Redmond? He goes to bed and gets up early next morning to upgrade his Windows 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V Cluster to Windows...
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Enhanced (Failover) Placement of Virtual Machines on Windows 8 Hyper-V Cluster
One of the nice features in Windows 8 Hyper-V clustering are the “drain node” capability and the virtual machine priorities. You can see this in action in a video by Aidan Finn here. For more details...
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Windows Hyper-V Server 2012 Live Migration DOES support pass-through...
See update in yellow in line (April 11th 2013) I recently saw KB2834898 (pulled) appear and it’s an important one. This fast publish statement is important as until recently it was accepted that Live...
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Still Need To Optimizing Power Settings On DELL 12th Generation Servers For...
Do you remember my blog from 2011 on optimizing some system settings to get way better Live Migration performance with 10Gbps NICs? It’s over here Optimizing Live Migrations with a 10Gbps Network in a...
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I’m Ready To Test Windows Server 2012 R2 Live Migration Over Multichannel &...
I’m so ready for the first Windows 2012 R2 preview bits. Yes that’s what our current setup looks like. Two RDMA capable NICs at the ready … let the bits come. I’m pretty excited to test Live Migration...
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Teamed NIC Live Migrations Between Two Hosts In Windows Server 2012 Do Use...
Introduction Between this blog NIC Teaming in Windows Server 2012 Brings Simple, Affordable Traffic Reliability and Load Balancing to your Cloud Workloads which states “TCP/IP can recover from missing...
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Configuring Performance Options for Live Migration In Windows Server 2012 R2...
New Options For Optimizing Live Migrations In Windows Server 2012 R2 we have a whole range of options to leverage Live Migration of our environment and needs. Next to the new default (Compression) we...
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An Early Look At Live Migration Over TCP/IP & Multichannel In Windows Server...
Introduction With Windows Server 2012 R2 (Preview) we can Live Migrations over TCP/IP like before. That’s either using a single NIC or by teaming two or more NICs. We also have compression and...
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Preliminary Results With Live Migration Over RDMA Speed & Useful Number Of NICs
Introduction With Windows Server 2012 R2 (Preview) we can leverage SMB to do Live Migrations. That means we can now offload the process to the NIC if they support RDMA, save on CPU cycles and...
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Live Migration over NIC Team in Switch Independent Mode With Dynamic Load...
In a previous blog post Live Migration over NIC Team in Switch Independent Mode With Dynamic Load Balancing & TCP/IP in Windows Server 2012 R2 we looked at what Dynamic load balancing mode in NIC...
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Adventures In RDMA – The RoCE Path Over DCB To Windows Server 2012 R2 SMB 3.0...
Prologue On gloomy day, it was dark, grey and cold, we gave battle with RoCE & DCB (PFC/ETS). The fight was a long one, the battle field uncharted and we had only our veteran attitude towards...
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Preventing Live Migration Over SMB Starving CSV Traffic in Windows Server...
One of the big changes in Windows Server 2012 R2 is that all types of Live Migration can now leverage SMB 3.0 if the right conditions are met. That means that Multichannel & SMB Direct (RDMA) come...
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