Networking Features

Network Virtualization helps you isolate network traffic from different business units or customers on a shared infrastructure without using virtual local area networks (VLANs). With Hyper-V Network Virtualization you can move virtual machines as needed within your virtual infrastructure while preserving their virtual network assignments and transparently integrate these private networks into a pre-existing infrastructure on another site, without changing the underlying IP addresses.

NIC Teaming allows multiple network interfaces to work together as a team, preventing connectivity loss when there is a network adapter failure. With NIC Teaming a server can tolerate network adapter and port failure up to the first switch segment. Additionally, you can aggregate bandwidth from multiple network adapters, for example, four 1-gigabyte (GB) network adapters can provide an aggregate of 4 GB/second of throughput.

The Hyper-V Extensible Switch provides programmatically managed and extensible capabilities to connect virtual machines to a physical network. The Hyper-V Extensible Switch provides protection against Address Resolution Protocol poisoning and spoofing and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) snooping, virtual local area network trunk mode support, and port mirroring for monitoring virtual machine network traffic.

IP Address Management (IPAM) is an out-of-the-box framework for discovering, monitoring, auditing, and managing the IP address space and the associated infrastructure servers on a corporate network. IPAM provides automatic IP address infrastructure discovery, migration of IP address data from spreadsheets or other tools, custom IP address space display, reporting and management, audit of server configuration changes and tracking of IP address usage, and monitoring and specific scenario-based management of DHCP and Domain Name System services.

Server Message Block (SMB) Multichannel allows aggregation of network bandwidth and network fault tolerance if multiple paths are available between the SMB client and the SMB server. Server applications can then take full advantage of all available network bandwidth and are resilient to network failures.