Networking Hardware Enhancements
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V can do quite a lot with the most basic of networking hardware. But at some point, you will need to leverage hardware features to scale up hosts more, to accelerate performance, to reduce latency, and to conserve host resources for the applications in the virtual machines. Network hardware can offer several enhancements that provide this functionality. In this section, you are going to look at those features that can greatly improve how Hyper-V works.
Single-Root I/O Virtualization
Hyper-V has always used software to connect virtual machines to the physical network. Software can never be as efficient as hardware. SR-IOV is a hardware solution based on PCI-SIG I/O Virtualization (IOV) ...
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