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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCVMM 2012 R2 – Networking – Virtual Network Adapter Port Profiles
Virtual Network Adapter Port Profile You cannot define directly on the VM in the VMM special configurations like VMQ, SRV-IOV, IPsec task Offloading and DHCP guard that you are able to set in the Hyper-V Manager. You need to define these configuration settings in the Virtual Network Adapter Port Profile. When you team network adapters…
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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCVMM 2012 R2 – Networking – Uplink Port Profiles
Uplink Port Profile You need the Uplink Port Profiles to configure how to uplink the information (how to link the hosts to the real network or in other words how to send data to the physical cables). Naming conventions You can read about my naming convention in the first networking article. PPU-<Logical Network>-<Uplink Port Profile> When…
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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCVMM 2012 R2 – Networking – IP Pools for the Logical Networks
IP Pool for the Logical Network It is a pool of IP addresses that are statically assigned to the host’s virtual adapters and VMs by VMM. I call it DHCP for servers. Of course it is not DHCP but it is automatic like DHCP and it is for the servers. It is always easier to have…
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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCVMM 2012 R2 – Networking – Logical Networks and Network Sites
Logical Network Logical Network is way how to define network that has same purpose. Logical Network can be for example Infrastructure network for Hyper-V hosts in all your datacenters (in multiple sites) and another Logical Network could be a network that is used by VMs of one tenant or multiple tenants (network virtualization). Naming conventions You can read about…
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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCVMM 2012 R2 – Networking
How to set-up networking in VMM? There are a lot of steps how to set basic networking in VMM. In the following articles I will guide you how to set simple networking with and without isolation (network virtualization). You always have to start without network virtualization for the basic Logical Network and your infrastructure servers…