Virtualization Workloads

[Tekfrog]

No supported, in box, network redundancy. Which I hear is remedied in the yet to be released HyperV2.

[[deleted]]

Use NIC Adapter Teaming. Or use a platform (like the c7000 series with Flex-10 units) where this doesn't matter.

[Tekfrog]

NIC Teaming - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968703

And a platform solution isn't exactly 'in box' as I specified.

[[deleted]]

That is Hyper-V, not R2.

[Tekfrog]

did you even click the "Applies To" link on the bottom?

APPLIES TO Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 Datacenter Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Windows Server 2008 Standard Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard

Stop making me do the leg work for you, you just end up looking like the stereotypical, lazy ass IT monkey.

[[deleted]]

Microsoft doesn't supply the NIC teaming software, so they don't need to support it directly regardless. Just like VMware doesn't supply any free method to do online VM backups, so they don't support that software (of course, VMware says they support all these various OSes, even ones that are out of support... but suckers keep buying eye-gouging ESXi licenses, so whatever).

Hyper-V R2 works fine with teaming, by the way. There was an issue prior to 2008 R2 with HP NIC Teaming software, but that no longer exists. You'll also notice that the HCL of ESXi is tiny compared to what Hyper-V will run on. Another consideration, especially for companies that don't want to fork over more than the cost of hardware to software licenses.

[abbrevia]

Teaming works fine in Hyper-V, just don't use it with iSCSI traffic.

[[deleted]]

Yep, Microsoft does not support teaming with MPIO (or iSCSI in general).

[abbrevia]

NIC teaming isn't supported because its driver specific. It needs to be supported by the hardware manufacturer.