Hyper-V / S2D Network Setup

[ultima170387]

I am currently in the process of setting up our new Hyper-V hosts along with storage spaces direct and just wondered what other peoples thoughts are in regard to network setup. Each server has 2 1Gbps and 2 10Gbps NICS. Thanks

[Davit2005]

What switches are you connecting the hosts to?

 

INMO you would connect each host with a 10Gb connection to either a chassis switch (2 different modules) with dual management or a stack and employ LACP between hosts and switches.

[ultima170387]

We only have one Netgear M4300 series 10Gbps switch which all the cabs and servers connect to.

[PotNoodleTech]

Each host here has 2 x 10Gb links trunked via LACP. The "20gig" link has all VLANS on it so all traffic flows through that. Set it up a few years ago now and it's worked perfectly. I only have one core switch so you could do it differently/better of you have multiple cores.

[azureusnation]

You might want to use one of the 1Gb nics in each host for cluster heart beat.

[Davit2005]

We only have one Netgear M4300 series 10Gbps switch which all the cabs and servers connect to.

 

The M4300 can be properly stacked I think, and then you could have an LACP link split between both if you want to carry on with Netgear. The 10Gb cards I normally use in my home vsphere lab are the Intel X520-DA2, I've normally picked up on ebay for around £80. I've got these split between 2 X Ubiquitti ES-16-XGs one is providing intervlan routing although I'm going to move this routing to 2 vyos instances, one on each host when I get a free weekend