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Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform

By : ZAHIR HUSSAIN SHAH
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Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform

By: ZAHIR HUSSAIN SHAH

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Introduction
SCVMM 2012 New Features and Enhancements
SCVMM Management Console Configuration Settings
Index

Improved Hyper-V virtual network switch


Now that we have seen a brief overview of a few of the Hyper-V virtual switch enhancements made in Windows Server 2012, in this section we will discuss all these improvements in detail.

Before we go ahead and discuss the new and improved Hyper-V virtual switch, let's first see the comparison between the Hyper-V virtual switch capabilities of Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2012:

Feature

Windows Server 2008 (R2)

Windows Server 2012

NIC teaming

Yes; through external NIC teaming software provided by third-party hardware vendors

Yes; a built-in NIC teaming feature for both the host and guest

VLAN tagging

Yes, with R2 SP1

Yes

MAC spoofing protection

Yes, with R2 SP1

Yes

ARP spoofing protection

No

Yes

Single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV)

No

Yes

Network QoS

No

Yes

Network metering

No

Yes

Network monitor extension

No

Yes

IPSEC task offload

No

Yes

VM trunk mode

No

Yes

Port mirroring

No

Yes

Now we will explore...