Windows Server 2012 R2 Virtual RSS (vRSS) In Action

The Need For Speed My clients or employers are normally into lots of data, large files &  number crunching. That means they like CPU power, memory, bandwidth & IOPS. That doesn’t mean they want to spend fortunes but it does … Continue reading

Preventing Live Migration Over SMB Starving CSV Traffic in Windows Server 2012 R2 with Set-SmbBandwidthLimit

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

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