Comments on: How to deploy a converged network with Windows Server 2016

By: Robert Rathbun

Robert Rathbun — Wed, 22 May 2019 00:36:59 +0000

Just wanted to share an article that will help improve on your efforts here. There is no such thing as a heartbeat network, it occurs dynamically without a dedicated network.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Failover-Clustering/No-such-thing-as-a-Heartbeat-Network/ba-p/388121

By: Romain Serre

Romain Serre — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 13:39:03 +0000

Hey,

It depends on the storage behind. If you have connected your storage through SAS or dedicated port, you can use only both 10Gb/s 🙂

By: Will

Will — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 16:42:24 +0000

Hey Romain,
I have 1 adapter with two 10gb fiber ports and another with 4 1gb ports. Any good way to utilize both adapters? Or do I really need another 2 port 10gb adapter? Thanks!

By: Romain Serre

Romain Serre — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 09:14:07 +0000

Hey,

It’s not like VMware, you don’t have to create “port group” for VM. In Hyper-V world, you just have to change the VLAN tagging in the vNIC configuration. I called them VM network 1 & 2 for example. But in system configuration, these names don’t exist.

By: Hayden

Hayden — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 21:43:06 +0000

Hi Romain – I just read you last comment above and was wondering if you could expand. I come from a VMware background and would add a port group to a vSwitch and call it guest network. I would then choose this guest network when building the VM.

In the above I see you have VM Network 1 and 2, but didn’t see you create it on the switch. I guess I missing something… Help Please.

Thanks!

By: Romain Serre

Romain Serre — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 16:35:41 +0000

Hey,

First, you don’t need to create vnic for VM networks. vNICs are virtual NIC for the hypervisor to be able to be reachable from those networks. Regarding the backup network, this is an example. If your software supports to seggregate the backup traffic, you can do it.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 13:31:19 +0000

Did you create vnics for your VM server networks too? I Dont see that in your powershell. Just trying to figure that part out. Any reason you see fit to have a backup vnic? So I can run all of my backups with veeam over a separate vlan?

By: Romain Serre

Romain Serre — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 05:01:46 +0000

Hey,

Glad this topic helped you. For some customers, I have migrated standard switches to logical switches by using this script: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center/vmm/network-switch?view=sc-vmm-1711#script-for-set-switch-conversion But it applies only to SET 🙂

By: Giancarlo

Giancarlo — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 14:36:33 +0000

Hi Romain,
I’ve found this article so interesting that I’ve decided to use the same configuration on a customer environment and it is working great!
However, I wanted to manage the so-created Hyper-V cluster with VMM 2016 and the Virtual Switch created with your procedure seems impossible to convert to a Logical Switch. Have you ever experienced the same situation? There’s any way to do that?
Thanks…

By: Romain Serre

Romain Serre — Tue, 29 May 2018 12:52:34 +0000

Hi,

Are you sure that RDMA is well set on each node and on switch side ? Which implementation do you deploy: iWARP or RoCE ?