Chapter 5. Network Best Practices

	"In networking assumptions can be deadly, so while you may trust your designs, you absolutely need to verify them, learn their behavior under normal operating conditions and during failover to make sure the solutions works as designed."
	--Didiervan Hoye - MVP Hyper-V

This chapter will make you familiar with the common network architectures compatible with Hyper-V and show you how to use them more efficiently. A complete network virtualization solution was introduced by Windows Server 2012, which offers a huge variety of networking options for Hyper-V.

Software-defined networking (SDN) allows you to design your network independently from the physical network topology. With Windows Server 2016, a lot of new SDN features have been added and, in this chapter, we will discuss those features which are related to Hyper-V.

In this chapter, you will learn about the following topics:

• Virtual switches, vNICS, and tNICS
• NIC Teaming...