Windows Server 2016 Hyper Converged Networking

The converged networking functionality with windows server 2016 is one of those powerful new features that enables much more efficient and logical management of network traffic for hyper v administrators.

Windows server 2016 hyper converged networking.

Because you need less network adapters this design reduces the cost of the solution. For example windows server 2012 introduced support for converged networking. To manage your cluster as hyper converged infrastructure in windows admin center it needs to be running windows server 2016 or windows server 2019 and have hyper v and storage spaces direct enabled. Software defined networking in windows server 2016.

Understand microsoft hyper converged solution this whitepaper is written by romain serre and charbel nemnom which describes microsoft hyper converged solution in windows server 2016 using storage spaces direct hyper v and network technologies. This lets you route network traffic through one external virtual switch. A hyper converged infrastructure hci consolidates compute and storage into. Windows server 2016 hyper v includes some powerful new networking technologies and features that are found in windows server 2016.

First published on msdn on sep 08 2015 one of the big hot features in windows server 2016 which has me really excited is storage spaces direct s2d. Last week microsoft announced the final release of windows server 2016 the bits can be downloaded here. The second part of this document shows an example of this implementation. Windows server 2016 networking part 3 optimizing network settings july 13 2017 may 6 2019 darryl azure stack hci in the previous parts we ve configured our network infrastructure with dcb and set qos policies to ensure traffic bandwidth.

I can now publish the setup of my lab configuration which is almost a production platform. Optionally it can also have software defined networking enabled and managed through windows admin center. In addition microsoft has announced that windows server 2016 supports now a 2 node hyperconverged cluster configuration. The final leg of hci on windows server 2016 is the ability to integrate networking between compute and storage systems.

With windows server 2016 the network convergence is easier to deploy than with windows server 2012r2.