Re: Hyper-V NIC utilization

2011-03-11 Thread Andrew S. Baker
How much bandwidth do you need?

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 On Mar 11, 2011 10:15 AM, Jay Dale 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

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RE: Hyper-V NIC utilization

2011-03-11 Thread Jay Dale
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?

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Sent from my Motorola Droid
On Mar 11, 2011 10:15 AM, Jay Dale 
jd...@unetek.commailto: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
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 Unetek, Inc.
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RE: Hyper-V NIC utilization

2011-03-11 Thread Glen Johnson
Depends.
I think I read a best practice that said at least two separate connections.
One for guest access and one for host management.

Possibly a third for backup and fourth for iscsi if needed.

From: Jay Dale [mailto:jd...@unetek.com]
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 10:14 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Hyper-V NIC utilization

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
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Unetek, Inc.
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RE: Hyper-V NIC utilization

2011-03-11 Thread Bob Fronk
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?

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Sent from my Motorola Droid
On Mar 11, 2011 10:15 AM, Jay Dale 
jd...@unetek.commailto: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
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 Unetek, Inc.
 Mobile: 832.373.7883
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RE: Hyper-V NIC utilization

2011-03-11 Thread Andrew S. Baker
You should consider aggregating 2 or 3 of the NICs and using them for guest
traffic in a way that provides redundancy. Use a separate NIC for
management.

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RE: Hyper-V NIC utilization

2011-03-11 Thread Malcolm Reitz
1.  How many NICs you use depends on the load and bandwidth requirements
of your VMs. Use one NIC for managing the host and one or more for the
virtual network connections (aggregated or dedicated to specific VMs).

2.  I would enable static addresses for all, or at least DHCP
reservations.

3.  You can only have one default gateway. You have to configure the
routing for the rest of the NICs with the route command line.

 

From: Jay Dale [mailto:jd...@unetek.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 09:14
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Hyper-V NIC utilization

 

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

 

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