One of the big changes in Windows Server 2012 R2 is that all types of Live Migration can now leverage SMB 3.0 if the right conditions are met. That means that Multichannel & SMB Direct (RDMA) come in to play … Continue reading
In a previous blog post Live Migration over NIC Team in Switch Independent Mode With Dynamic Load Balancing & TCP/IP in Windows Server 2012 R2 we looked at what Dynamic load balancing mode in NIC teaming can do for us … Continue reading
As you can imagine I was quite interested in seeing what the new Dynamic load balancing mode in NIC teaming can do for us. Especially in a switch independent configuration as until now there was no possibility to leverage the … Continue reading
Introduction With Windows Server 2012 R2 (Preview) we can leverage SMB to do Live Migrations. That means we can now offload the process to the NIC if they support RDMA, save on CPU cycles and potentially get VMs moves a … Continue reading