I have been using Dell R610 servers to move many of our physical servers to HyperV. The R610 has 4 NIC Ports and 6 SATA drives. I am creating 3 RAID1 volumes, one for OS and one for each VM. I am assigning each VM its own NIC.
I would suggest doing the same if there are bandwidth intensive applications on the VM. I do have one R610 with 6 VM servers and have combined NICs on some of them, but they are low bandwidth. (Vipre, Time Clock, etc). I have not seen any performance impact from combining the NICs. However, if you have them, why not use them? BF From: Jay Dale [mailto:jd...@unetek.com] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 11:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hyper-V NIC utilization Currently they are on a 22MB/2MB connection from Entouch, they have a BES and are migrating to Exch 2010 from 2003 - heavy BB and email usage, not as much remote usage, only a couple of minor-staffed remote offices with site to site VPN connections - they are a community residential association. Jay Dale Senior Systems Administrator c:832.373.7883 From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 10:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Hyper-V NIC utilization How much bandwidth do you need? -ASB: http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker Sent from my Motorola Droid On Mar 11, 2011 10:15 AM, "Jay Dale" <jd...@unetek.com<mailto:jd...@unetek.com>> wrote: > Hey all, > > I am setting up a new Hyper-V server for a company where I am P2V'ing 3 of > their physical servers. Currently I want to just set up one virtual network, > and if they add servers down the road I will add another. The physical host > machine comes with 4 NIC's. My questions are these: > > > 1. Should I utilize all 4 NIC's on one virtual network, or use only 1 or 2 of > them and leave the rest disconnected? > > 2. I'm attaching the host to their domain, should I have all the NIC's > utilize static IP's or just one static with one IP and let the rest have DHCP > addresses? > > 3. When I attempt to configure 2 NIC's with static IP's, I get the "multiple > gateways" message - is that a bad thing or disregard it? > > Thanks for any advice you can pass on! > > Jay > > Jay Dale > Senior Systems Administrator > Unetek, Inc. > Mobile: 832.373.7883 > Email:jd...@unetek.com<mailto:email%3ajd...@unetek.com><mailto:jd...@unetek.com<mailto:jd...@unetek.com>> > > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any attached files, may > contain confidential and/or privileged information for the sole use of the > intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby > notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this e-mail and > attachments, if any, or the information contained herein, is strictly > prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive > information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply > e-mail and delete all copies of this message. > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to > listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
