I've been poking about YouTube and reading Microsoft blog posts about this SMB multichannel and it sounds great! Except I can't find hard specifics of what is truly necessary to bake bread before going to the grocery store to get the ingredients!
I'm thinking I'd like to take a couple of Windows 2012 R2 server with some internal disk, add the Hyper-V role to them and distribute their 4 x 1 GbE as 2 x 1 GbE to separate switches.
Assuming a single 1 GbE up-linking those switches is not enough bandwidth, do you have to LACP "N" x 1 GbE on those separate switches to get 'r done?
If not LACP, do you have stack these switches for SMB multichannel to auto-magically discover a "supported configuration"?
And what's this talk about not teaming adapters and letting DHCP hand out an IP to each NIC in each server? Won't the server be confused about its host identity and FQDN?
I'm thinking I'd like to take a couple of Windows 2012 R2 server with some internal disk, add the Hyper-V role to them and distribute their 4 x 1 GbE as 2 x 1 GbE to separate switches.
Assuming a single 1 GbE up-linking those switches is not enough bandwidth, do you have to LACP "N" x 1 GbE on those separate switches to get 'r done?
If not LACP, do you have stack these switches for SMB multichannel to auto-magically discover a "supported configuration"?
And what's this talk about not teaming adapters and letting DHCP hand out an IP to each NIC in each server? Won't the server be confused about its host identity and FQDN?