Converged networking
With Hyper-V Network Virtualization—VLANs, QoS, and NIC—we now have great tools at hand for creating true software-defined networking, independent of the underlying physical hardware. This enables us to implement the network design of our choice without the need for additional physical NICs. Use a few high-speed NICs instead of many single Gigabit NICs. Team those NICs and add a converged networking solution on it. Use the virtual NICs on a vSwitch (instead of tNICs without a vSwitch) to add QoS configurations. This offers many possibilities and there are no right or wrong options here. I'm introducing a converged network design that I have often implemented myself, and also regularly found in production environments.
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