November 2014
Intermediate to advanced
172 pages
4h 17m
English
When using SMB3 storage communication or Live Migration, it is not possible to utilize optimal performance through our existing converged networking design. In this case, it's highly recommended to use RDMA-capable network cards. Add two network cards with RDMA capability to your hosts. Do not team them. Do not use MPIO on them. Configure both to use different subnets, Windows Server will automatically spread the workload between the NICs using SMB multichannel. RDMA enables high-performance networking while using very little CPU load. SMB Direct will be automatically enabled when RDMA-capable NICs are detected on the host.
There are three types of RDMA-aware network architectures available:
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