An Early Look At Live Migration Over TCP/IP & Multichannel In Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview

Introduction With Windows Server 2012 R2 (Preview) we can Live Migrations over TCP/IP like before. That’s either using a single NIC or by teaming two or more NICs. We also have compression and Multichannel. In this blog post we’ll play … Continue reading

Configuring Performance Options for Live Migration In Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview

New Options For Optimizing Live Migrations In Windows Server 2012 R2 we have a whole range of options to leverage Live Migration of our environment and needs. Next to the new default (Compression) we can now also leverage SMB 3.0 … Continue reading

Teamed NIC Live Migrations Between Two Hosts In Windows Server 2012 Do Use All Members

Introduction Between this blog NIC Teaming in Windows Server 2012 Brings Simple, Affordable Traffic Reliability and Load Balancing to your Cloud Workloads which states “TCP/IP can recover from missing or out-of-order packets. However, out-of-order packets seriously impact the throughput of … Continue reading

I’m Ready To Test Windows Server 2012 R2 Live Migration Over Multichannel & RDMA!

I’m so ready for the first Windows 2012 R2 preview bits. Yes that’s what our current setup looks like. Two RDMA capable NICs at the ready … let the bits come. I’m pretty excited to test Live Migration over Multichannel … Continue reading