Virtualization

How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 NVGRE — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 NVGRE

How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 NVGRE Network Virtualization using Generic Routing Encapsulation (NVGRE) is Microsoft’s network virtualization technology that encapsulates Layer 2 Ethernet frames within GRE packets to create isolated virtual networks across a shared physical infrastructure. NVGRE is part of Windows Server 2019’s Hyper-V Network Virtualization (HNV) stack and is the predecessor […]

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How to Configure Windows Server 2019 VXLAN — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Windows Server 2019 VXLAN

How to Configure Windows Server 2019 VXLAN Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) is a network virtualization technology that encapsulates Layer 2 Ethernet frames within UDP packets, allowing virtual networks to span across Layer 3 boundaries. VXLAN is a key component of Microsoft’s Software Defined Networking (SDN) stack in Windows Server 2019, enabling massive scalability beyond the […]

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How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 RAS Gateway — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 RAS Gateway

How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 RAS Gateway The Remote Access Service (RAS) Gateway in Windows Server 2019 is a software-based router and gateway designed for cloud service providers and enterprises that host multi-tenant virtual networks using Hyper-V Network Virtualization. It provides site-to-site VPN, point-to-site VPN, and GRE tunneling capabilities, enabling connectivity between virtual […]

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How to Configure Windows Server 2019 Software Load Balancer — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Windows Server 2019 Software Load Balancer

How to Configure Windows Server 2019 Software Load Balancer Software Load Balancer (SLB) is a component of the Windows Server 2019 Software Defined Networking (SDN) stack that provides inbound and outbound network traffic load balancing and Network Address Translation (NAT). SLB operates at Layer 4 (TCP/UDP) and distributes connections across backend server pools using ECMP […]

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How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 Network Controller — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 Network Controller

How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 Network Controller Network Controller is a Software Defined Networking (SDN) component available in Windows Server 2019 Datacenter edition that provides a centralized, programmable point of automation for virtual and physical network infrastructure management. Network Controller manages Hyper-V virtual networks, software load balancers, RAS Gateways, and Network Security Groups. […]

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How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 SR-IOV — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 SR-IOV

How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 SR-IOV Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) is a PCI-SIG specification that allows a single physical PCIe network adapter to present multiple virtual functions (VFs) directly to virtual machines, bypassing the Hyper-V virtual switch and the software network stack. This provides near-native network performance in VMs with ultra-low latency […]

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How to Configure Windows Server 2019 RDMA Networking — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Windows Server 2019 RDMA Networking

How to Configure Windows Server 2019 RDMA Networking Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) networking allows data to be transferred directly between application memory on different servers, bypassing the CPU and operating system kernel for data movement. This dramatically reduces CPU utilization, latency, and memory bandwidth consumption for high-throughput workloads. Windows Server 2019 supports RDMA through […]

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How to Configure Windows Server 2019 SMB Direct — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Windows Server 2019 SMB Direct

How to Configure Windows Server 2019 SMB Direct SMB Direct is an enhancement to the SMB 3 protocol that enables direct memory access transfers between servers using RDMA-capable network adapters. When available, SMB Direct allows data to be transferred between server memory over the network without involving the CPU for data movement, dramatically reducing CPU […]

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How to Configure Windows Server 2019 Data Deduplication — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Windows Server 2019 Data Deduplication

How to Configure Windows Server 2019 Data Deduplication Data Deduplication (dedup) on Windows Server 2019 reduces storage consumption by identifying and removing duplicate data blocks within a volume, replacing duplicate copies with references to a single shared copy. Deduplication is particularly effective for file shares, virtualization storage (VDI, Hyper-V), and backup repositories, where data duplication […]

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How to Configure Windows Server 2019 ReFS File System — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Windows Server 2019 ReFS File System

How to Configure Windows Server 2019 ReFS File System Resilient File System (ReFS) is Microsoft’s modern file system designed for maximum reliability, scalability, and data integrity. ReFS uses checksumming for all data and metadata, enabling automatic corruption detection and, when paired with Storage Spaces Mirror resiliency, automatic corruption repair. Windows Server 2019 includes ReFS version […]

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