Converged networking

With Hyper-V Network Virtualization-VLANs, QoS, and NIC-we now have great tools at hand for creating true software-defined networking, independent of the underlying physical hardware. This enables us to implement the network design of our choice without the need for additional physical NICs. Use a few high-speed NICs instead of many single gigabit NICs. I highly recommend that you use network adapters from the same manufacturers. Even if NIC Teaming supports NICs from several vendors, I have seen a lot of issues with this kind of configuration. Team these NICs and add a converged networking solution on it. Use the virtual NICs on a vSwitch (instead of tNICs without a vSwitch) to add QoS configurations.

This offers many possibilities and there are no right or wrong options here. I'm introducing a converged network design that I have often implemented myself, and also regularly found in production environments.

A switch-independent/dynamic team is created on all available...