Windows Server 2016: Advanced Networking Features

Learn about the advanced networking features for Windows Server 2016. Discover how to tackle the high-performance and software-defined networking scenarios you may encounter.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should already know

1. High-Performance Network Interfaces

• NIC teaming concepts
• Configuring NIC Teams
• Switch embedded teaming
• Virtual receiver side scaling
• QoS with data center bridging (DCB)

2. High-Performance SMB Environments

• Remote enabled direct memory access NICs
• SMB multichannel
• Application scenarios

3. High-Performance Virtual Networks

• Virtual machine multiqueue concepts
• Configuring VMQ
• About single-root I/O virtualization
• Enable and configure SR-IOV

4. Software-Defined Networks

• Understanding software-defined networks
• SDN network requirements
• SDN deployment scenarios

5. Software-Defined Virtual Networks

• Hyper-V network virtualization
• Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)
• Virtual extensible LAN encapsulation
• Load balancing virtual networks
• Configuring North-South load balancing
• Configuring East-West load balancing

6. Gateways and Firewalls

• Windows Server Gateway scenarios
• Configuring L3 Windows Server Gateway
• HNV gateway for site-to-site VPN
• Planning distributed firewall policies
• Implementing firewall policies

Conclusion

• Next steps