Note the following list provides some examples, and it does not contain all network access types. For instance, some implementations would include a dedicated backup network. Network Access Purpose of the Network-traffic Recommended Type network-access type requirements network access Storage Access storage through High bandwidth and Usually dedicated and SMB, iSCSI, or Fibre low latency. private access. Refer to Channel. (Fibre Channel your storage vendor for does not need a guidelines. network adapter.) Virtual machine Workloads that run on Varies. Public access, which access virtual machines usually could be teamed for require external link aggregation or to network connectivity to fail over the cluster. service client requests. Management Managing the Hyper-V Low bandwidth. Public access, which management operating could be teamed to fail system. This network is over the cluster. used by Hyper-V Manager or System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM). Cluster and Cluster Preferred network that Usually low bandwidth Private access. Shared Volumes is used by the cluster and low latency. (CSV) for communications to Occasionally high maintain cluster health. bandwidth. Also used by CSV to send data between owner and non-owner nodes. If storage access is interrupted, this network is used to access the CSV or to maintain and back up the CSV. The cluster should have access to more than one network for communication to help make sure that it is a high availability cluster.
Note the following list provides some examples, and it does not contain all network access types. For instance, some implementations would include a dedicated backup network. Network Access Type Purpose of the network-access type Network-traffic requirements Recommended network access Storage Access storage through SMB, iSCSI, or Fibre Channel. (Fibre Channel does not need a network adapter.) High bandwidth and low latency. Usually dedicated and private access. Refer to your storage vendor for guidelines. Virtual machine access Workloads that run on virtual machines usually require external network connectivity to service client requests. Varies. Public access, which could be teamed for link aggregation or to fail over the cluster. Management Managing the Hyper-V management operating system. This network is used by Hyper-V Manager or System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM). Low bandwidth. Public access, which could be teamed to fail over the cluster. Cluster and Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) Preferred network that is used by the cluster for communications to maintain cluster health. Also used by CSV to send data between owner and non-owner nodes. If storage access is interrupted, this network is used to access the CSV or to maintain and back up the CSV. The cluster should have access to more than one network for communication to help make sure that it is a high availability cluster. Usually low bandwidth and low latency. Occasionally high bandwidth. Private access.
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