Hyper-V and Disk Fragmentation

There are 3 type of disk fragmentation you might need to deal with in regards to Hyper-V: Fragmentation of the file system on the host LUN where the VMs reside. Fragmentation of files system on the LUNs inside of the … Continue reading

DCB ETS Demo with SMB Direct over RoCE (RDMA)

It’s time to demonstrate ETS in action! There is a quick video on ETS on Vimeo to show what it look like. I’m using Mellanox ConnectX-3 ethernet cards, in 2 node DELL PowerEdge R720 Hyper- cluster lab. We’ve configured the … Continue reading

DCB PFC Demo with SMB Direct over RoCE (RDMA)

In this blog post we’ll demo Priority Flow control. We’re using the demo comfit as described in SMB Direct over RoCE Demo – Hosts & Switches Configuration Example There is also a quick video to illustrate all this on Vimeo. … Continue reading

SMB Direct over RoCE Demo – Hosts & Switches Configuration Example

As mentioned in Where SMB Direct, RoCE, RDMA & DCB fit into the stack this post’s only function is to give you an overview of the configurations used in the demo blogs/videos. First we’ll configure one Windows Server 2012 R2 … Continue reading