Users Guide

Contents 3
Contents
1Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Additional Documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2 The Virtual Network Architecture
for Hyper-V Server 2008
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Virtual Network Adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Virtual Switches
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3 Supported Hardware and
Software Settings for the
Network Adapter
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Supported Physical Network Adapter Settings. . . . . 13
Stateless Offload (LSO and CSO)
. . . . . . . . . . 14
VLAN Tagging
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Supported Physical Network Adapter Settings
. . . . . 14