Windows Server Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Hyper-V Network Virtualization (HNV) – Part 3: Providing External HNV Connectivity with the Native SDN Gateway and pfSense
In Part 2 of this series, we connected a second tenant VM to our HNV virtual network and verified communication…
Windows Server Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Hyper-V Network Virtualization (HNV) – Part 2: Testing Cross-Host HNV Connectivity
In Part 1 of this series, we deployed the fundamental Windows Server Software Defined Networking (SDN) infrastructure, including the Network…
Windows Server Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Hyper-V Network Virtualization (HNV) – Part 1: Deploying the SDN Infrastructure
Windows Server Software Defined Networking (SDN) provides a software-defined networking architecture for centrally configuring and managing virtual and physical network…
Understanding ICMP Redirects – Why Your Network Traffic Suddenly Takes a Different Route
When a host needs to communicate with a destination outside its local subnet, it normally forwards the packet to its…
Microsoft Hyper-V Networking Best Practices – Part 4 – Managing Hyper-V with SCVMM and Comparing It with VMware vCenter
So far, we have built and managed our Hyper-V environment using Hyper-V Manager, Failover Cluster Manager, and PowerShell. While these…
Microsoft Hyper-V Networking Best Practices – Part 2 – Configuring Hyper-V Networking, SET, and Failover Clustering
In Part 1 of this series, we installed the Hyper-V role and prepared the lab environment by deploying a domain…
VMware vSphere Networking Best Practices
This post outlines VMware’s recommended best practices for configuring network redundancy and NIC teaming in vSphere environments. It explains the…
How Multicast Traffic Works in VMware vSphere – Testing VSS (Basic Multicast Filtering) vs VDS (IGMP/MLD Snooping) with Video Streaming – Part 2
In Part 1, we built the multicast lab environment and explored multicast communication within a single VLAN, including IGMP, IGMP…
How Multicast Traffic Works in VMware vSphere – Testing VSS (Basic Multicast Filtering) vs VDS (IGMP/MLD Snooping) with Video Streaming – Part 1
Multicast traffic is commonly used for IPTV, video surveillance systems, financial market data feeds, software deployment solutions, and other applications…
Mastering Packet Monitor (Pktmon) on Windows
For years, troubleshooting network traffic on Windows servers often meant installing third-party tools like Wireshark or Npcap directly on production…
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