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Designing for High Availability 29
Design for Fiber Channel Configurations
Table 3-6 summarizes the recommended network requirements for a Fiber
Channel based configuration for a Hyper-V Host Cluster:
* Scale the number of network ports based on the number of VMs and
workloads. Distribute VMs across the associated virtual networks based on
bandwidth requirements.
Figure 3-2 provides a sample configuration of the infrastructure and
highlights the need for isolating the traffic for management, storage, and
workloads running within the virtual machines.
Table 3-6. Fiber Channel-Based Configuration Network Requirements
Network Connections
Fiber Channel
Connections
Parent Partition
Management and
Cluster Public
Network
Cluster Private
Network
Virtual Machine
Network
Storage I/O
Minimum
Recommended
Ports
1 Port 1 Port 2 Ports* 2 Ports