References for new Hyper-V Features

Hi friends

This blog is basically for reference. Microsoft has added many features in Hyper-V since it was first introduced in server 2008 and list keeps on increasing with every new Windows server.

Below are few links to understand technologies offered by Hyper-V. Ofcourse there are so many blogs and these are the ones which I found easy to understand and to-the-point.

For DHCP Guard

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2014/03/24/hyper-v-networking-dhcp-guard.aspx

Note: DHCP Guard don’t stop VM to accept IP. It stops him to provide IP (works as DHCP server) ofcourse if its a DHCP server. We use it to:

Stop rogue DHCP server from offering IPs to clients
Stop DHCP service on particular NIC when server has more than one NIC and we want to block any of them from offering IP. This helps when these NICs are connected to different network and you don’t want DHCP on few of these networks.

For SR-IOV

http://blog.scottlowe.org/2009/12/02/what-is-sr-iov/

For NUMA

http://blogs.technet.com/b/pracheta/archive/2014/01/22/understanding-why-numa-is-useful-with-windows-server-2012.aspx

For vRSS

http://www.aidanfinn.com/?p=15414

For RDMA

https://www.atlantic.net/blog/what-exactly-is-remote-direct-memory-access-rdma-and-how-does-it-work/

RDMA capability is used as a feature “SMB Direct” in Windows 2012/2012 R2. More explanation of SMB Direct is at:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-in/library/jj134210.aspx

For VMQ

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg162704(v=ws.10).aspx