Microsoft Network Virtualization

In this section, you will look at the architecture and function of the network virtualization solution, along with the two mechanisms available to enable this service. You will also investigate how to go about implementing the network virtualization solution with Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V.

Today we have become comfortable with the concept of virtualization when we think about CPU, memory, and even disks, but the idea of network virtualization is pretty new. We can figure out for ourselves that this obviously extends the concepts we already understand to apply to networks—so, in essence, network virtualization converts physical networks to virtual networks.

Consider for a moment that virtual memory simulates ...

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