Only a few more topics in this series remain uncovered. This part of the series looks at resiliency with SR-IOV. By resiliency, I mean, of course, NIC teaming, otherwise known as Load Balancing/Failover (LBFO), the ability to aggregate network links or fail over should a link fail. I won’t get...

Summarising the series so far, we’ve answered “Why SR-IOV?”, looked at hardware and firmware dependencies, and run through the user interface and PowerShell cmdlets to configure SR-IOV. Next on the agenda is how SR-IOV and Live Migration co-operate. In addition, there’s a video...

In parts 1 through 4 , I covered the external dependencies and the “why” of SR-IOV. So it’s about time I showed you how to setup SR-IOV and what it looks like in a little more detail from a configuration perspective, both through the user interface in Hyper-V Manager, and from PowerShell...

So far in this series, we have discussed the “why” question, and identified three dependencies for SR-IOV in Hyper-V in Windows Server “8” beta: System hardware support in the form of an IOMMU device A PCI Express networking device which has SR-IOV capabilities A driver...

Now that the veil of silence has been lifted with the release of Windows Server “8” beta , I’m able to tell you a little more about what I’ve been working on for 5 years now. An inside joke is that it’s a feature with two checkboxes in the UI of Hyper-V Manager, so about...