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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

Dave Kawula

MVP

Jun 22, 2017

Hey Philip,

I think Robert is trying to set this up as a Nested S2D Configuration on a Single Host. I'm not sure you will see much for real RDMA Configurations nested will you. I have to go look at one of my labs to be sure.

Do any of the RDMA functions even work nested? I haven't ever tested that part in this scenario?

Thnaks,

Dave

Elden_Christensen

Microsoft

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