Real World Solutions

Here are a few examples of how you can use the information in this chapter in the real world.

Implementing RSS and DVMQ

Challenge

You are a consultant starting a cloud project for a customer. The hosts that will be deployed in this cloud have the following specifications:

  • Two 10 core processors with Hyper-Threading enabled, providing you with a total of 40 logical processors.
  • Four NICs that will be used to create two NIC teams, one for an external virtual switch (Hyper-V Port and Switch-Independent) and one for host communications (Address Hashing and Switch-Independent). All four NICs support RSS queues, but not SR-IOV.

The project requirements state that you must enable any available hardware acceleration to increase ...

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