Question

I am curious, what have you learned about on Implementing High-Performance Network Solution and Determining Scenarios and Requirements for Implementing Software-Defined Networking (SDN) relating to five objectives of:

• Configuring Server Message Block (SMB) Multichannel
• Enable and configure Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
• Enable and configure virtual Receive Side Scaling (vRSS) on a Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ)-capable network adapter
• Determine deployment scenarios and network requirements for deploying SDN
• Determine scenarios for implementation of Software Load Balancing (SLB) for North-South and East-West load balancing

Identify five (5) objectives that you learned about. List and discuss the five objectives and share any research with your peers. Merely saying that you want to learn more about a particular topic with any description or explanation of the topic. Focus on how the concepts are used in a production environment or if you have real-world experience, share your experience with your peers.

I appreciated your help.

Thank you,

Abbie

Answer 1

Five Objectives:

• Configuring Server Message Block (SMB) Multichannel: SMB Multichannel enables various file servers to use multiple network connections at the same instant of time. It provides with aggregation of network bandwidth and network fault tolerance when multiple paths are available between the SMB 3.0 client and the SMB 3.0 server. This capability allows server applications to take full advantage of all available network bandwidth and makes them stay out of network failures. The SMB Multichannel automatically configures and discovers multiple available network paths and dynamically adds connections as necessary.

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• Enable and configure Receive Side Scaling (RSS): The Virtual Receive-side scaling (RSS) is a feature in Windows Server 2012 R2 that allows the load from a virtual network adapter to be distributed across multiple virtual processors in a virtual machine. It can be enabled and configured in the following way.The RSS can be configured in the following way: 1.Open a command prompt .2. Execute the following command

1. netsh interface tcp set global rss=enabled 3. t this point, Receive Side Scaling should be enabled. Optionally, you can verify this in the Windows GUI. Follow the steps below for verification.
2. Execute the following command to open up device manager
3. DEVMGMT.msc

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• Enable and configure virtual Receive Side Scaling (vRSS) on a Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ)-capable network adapter: RAS Gateway is a software-based, multitenant, BGP capable router in Windows Server 2016 that is designed for CSPs and Enterprises that host multiple tenant virtual networks using HNV. The network controller allows you to automate configuration of your network infrastructure, instead of manually configuring network devices and services.

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Determine deployment scenarios and network requirements for deploying SDN:

1. You need access to your physical network devices to configure VLANs, routing etc. You also need Hyper-V hosts to host the SDN infrastructure and tenant VMs. Learn more.
2. You can prepare a virtual hard disk for the network controller service template in VHD or VHDX format, as appropriate for the service template generation you choose.
3. Download the network controller service templates and import them to the VMM library.
4. You'll need an Active Directory security group for network controller management, and another security group for network controller clients. Each group will need at least one user account in it.
5. You can have an optional library file share for keeping diagnostic logs. This library share will be accessed by the network controller to store diagnostics information throughout its lifetime.

6. Set up a dedicated host group for all of the SDN Hyper-V hosts.

   Note: Hosts must be running Windows Server 2016 with latest patches installed, and have the Hyper-V role enabled.

7. Create a logical network to mirror management network connectivity for the VMM host, network controller hosts, and tenant VM hosts. If you want to allocate static IP addresses from a pool, create a pool on this logical network.
8. You create the logical switch, and deploy it on network controller hosts, to provide connectivity to the management network for network controller VMs.
9. You need an SSL certificate for secure/HTTPS communication with the network controller.
10. Import and customize the network controller service template.
11. Deploy the network controller service using the service template. Then add it as a VMM service.

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Determine scenarios for implementation of Software Load Balancing (SLB) for North-South and East-West load balancing: (SDN) in Windows Server 2016 can use Software Load Balancing (SLB) to evenly distribute North -South and East-West customer network traffic among virtual network resources. The Windows Server SLB enables multiple servers to host the same workload, providing high availability and scalability.

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