Chapter 6: Deploying the Management Cluster
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Deployment Guide
5.
In
Additional properties
:
Set
Teaming mode
to
Switch Independent
.
Set
Load balancing mode
to
Dynamic
.
Note:
The dynamic mode is a new feature of Windows Server 2016. The load
balancing algorithm, which balances traffic using flowlets, can spread both inbound
and outbound traffic. The Hyper-V port algorithm forces all VM traffic through only
one physical NIC, whereas the dynamic mode spreads traffic across all the NICs,
regardless of workload.
6.
Click
OK
.
7.
Verify that the NICs are active.
On the PowerEdge 14G server, start Windows PowerShell as an administrator and
configure the network as follows.
Note:
For larger deployments or for future use as the environment scales, consider SCVMM
networking. For more information, see the following Microsoft articles:
Set up the VMM networking fabric
Set up networking for Hyper-V hosts and clusters in
1.
Create a VM switch:
New-VMSwitch –AllowManagementOS 1 –Name ConvergedNetSwitch –
MinimumBandwidthmode weight – Verbose
NetAdapterName: ConvergedNet Team
2.
Create a VM network adapter for the cluster:
Add-VMNetworkAdapter –ManagementOS –SwitchName
ConvergedNetSwitch –Name Cluster –Verbose
3.
Create a VM network adapter for a live migration:
Add-VMNetworkAdapter –ManagementOS –SwitchName
ConvergedNetSwitch –Name LiveMigration – Verbose
4.
Set VLAN access properties for the management network adapter:
Set-VMNetworkAdapterVlan –ManagementOS –VMNetworkAdapterName
ConvergedNetSwitch –Access – VlanId 110
5.
Set VLAN access properties for the cluster network adapter:
Set-VMNetworkAdapterVlan –ManagementOS –VMNetworkAdapterName
Cluster –Access –VlanId 210
6.
Set VLAN access properties to
LiveMigration
:
Set-VMNetworkAdapterVlan –ManagementOS –VMNetworkAdapterName
LiveMigration –Access –VlanId 120
7.
Set the minimum bandwidth reservation for the management network adapter:
Configure
Hyper-V
networking in
Windows Server
2016
