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Demystifying SMB 3.x multichannel – part 8 – VM1 on Hyper-V host 1 to VM2 on Hyper-V host 2 – 4 NICs in each VM

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We are upgrading configuration from previous part (7) so we are adding additional Virtual Network Adapters to both VMs (so each will have 4).

*** When I “hot added” network cards you can see that the throughput was bad (probably we should wait for couple of seconds or minutes for reconfiguration as new network adapters were added) – so on 56th second I am pausing the video for a VMs reboot and on 58th second I am resuming recording after VMs reboot. You can see that after reboot everything works great and we are getting maximum speed out of our 4 physical NICs in each of our Hyper-V hosts.

Demystifying SMB 3.x multichannel – part 3 – Hyper-V server to Hyper-V server example with windows teaming tool (server manager / powershell) and VMSwitch on top

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As I told you at the beginning of this series I am a big fan of Hyper-V – I have been implementing it since 2008 (when nobody believed this would ever become a serious virtualization platform :)). So in Windows server 2012 / 2012 R2 the most common way of setting up your Hyper-V networking was to just team your NICs by using Windows provided tool and then just to create a VMSwitch on top of it – by using Hyper-V manager or Powershell and by using the checkbox Allow management operating system to share this network adapter. After this process you ended up with a new virtual NIC called for example vEthernet (Team01).

Like in previous scenario (part 2) we have 1 gigabit speed when copying files from server to server. And yes, if there was a third server we would probably start using next NIC so we would have 2 gigabit traffic from server 1 – 1 gigabit to server 2 and 1 gigabit to server 2 – but still just a gigabit to each of them.

In this video you can see that we are upgrading previous scenario (teamed NICs) by enabling Hyper-V Virtual Switch (External type) using Hyper-V Manager – you could also do that by using Powershell following the documentation.