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Brass Contributor

Mar 16, 2017

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testing S2D within hyper-v

Hello, I am trying to test s2d within hyper-v, but not certain how to enable the RDMA on vNIC? I assume that is necessary. I try to run Enable-NetAdapterRDMA, but when I run Get-SmbClientNetwork...

Elden_Christensen
Jun 27, 2017
RDMA to the guest is not supported with Windows Server 2016, so it's not possible to do what you are suggesting... but the good news is that it's not needed either.

See this blog which outlines how to create a Guest Cluster with S2D:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/clustering/2015/05/27/testing-storage-spaces-direct-using-windows-server-2016-virtual-machines/

Thanks!
Elden

Anonymous

Mar 17, 2017

Hi, maybe this article can help you: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server-docs/networking/technologies/hyper-v-virtual-switch/rdma-and-switch-embedded-teaming

Regards, Erwin