General Service Profile Questions - Hyper-V

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I trying to tune our Service profile template for our Hyper-V deployment. 

At this time, our setup looks like this: 

Nic Name	Role	Offloading technology	MTU	FI
E0	Management	None	1500	A + B failover enabled
HeartBeat	Heartbeat	None	1500	A + B failover enabled
Live Migration	LiveMigration	RSS	9000	A + B failover enabled - RDMA is being tested.
SMB-104	Link 1 of 2 for SMB storage for VM's	VMQ	9000	A w/o failover - *
SMB-105	Link 2 of 2 for SMB storage for VM's	VMQ	9000	B w/o failover - *
SMB-102	Link 1 of 2 SMB storage for Host	RSS	9000	A w/o failover - RDMA cannot be implemented with current RDMA support
SMB-103	Link 2 of 2 SMB storage for Host	RSS	9000	A w/o failover - RDMA cannot be implemented with current RDMA support
VM-A	Link 1 of 2 for Tenant vSwitch	VMQ	9000	A w/o failover - **
VM-B	Link 2 of 2 for Tenant vSwitch	VMQ	9000	B w/o failover - **

Notes:

RDMA is disabled for all NICs, in windows and in the Cisco Adapter policies. 

* Each vNic is a single member virtual switch - Two nice are presented to the VM's and the NICS are teamed in the VM to access SMB share on our Scale out file server. 

** The Tenant vSwitch is teamed in the host. Only one nic is presented to the VM's. 

SMB-102 and SMB-103 are the links used by our hosts to access our Scale out File Server VIA SMB 3.02

Can anyone review this and let me know their thoughts? Any ways to improve on this ?

Thanks 

[Walter Dey]

Hardware failover by the FI is no more recommeded. This was a feature of W2008, when MSFT didn't have teaming and failover bundled with the OS; with W2012 this is now changed.

Do you know

http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/solutions/collateral/borderless-networks/advanced-services/Whitepaper_C11-730725.pdf

White Paper January 2014 Cisco Unified Computing System with Microsoft Hyper-V Recommended Practices

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/24f8dd51-07db-41c4-a964-1031bd519d1f/deploying-hyper-v-on-cisco-ucs-converged-networking-in-vmm-or-on-hardware?forum=winserverhyperv

https://www.ciscolive.com/online/connect/sessionDetail.ww?backBtn=true&SESSION_ID=77844

Walter.