<div>
How do you calculate how many NICs to add to a new deployment?
</div>


How do you calculate how many NICs to add to a new deployment?

<div>
<div class="content wysiwyg-content">
Planning a server with 2-4 DIfferent Hyper-V Images.<br />
<br />
Windows Server 2012 R2, SQL Server 2012, Possible 1-2 more Windows Server 2012 images.<br />
<br />
Is it best to dedicate 1 nic per vm or 2 nics per vm?<br />
<br />
Do 2 vm's actually give you 2 Gigabit?
</div>
</div>


Planning a server with 2-4 DIfferent Hyper-V Images.

Windows Server 2012 R2, SQL Server 2012, Possible 1-2 more Windows Server 2012 images.

Is it best to dedicate 1 nic per vm or 2 nics per vm?

Do 2 vm's actually give you 2 Gigabit?

Best way to plan Network adapters for Hyper-V Images

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.

Windows Server 2012

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.

Windows Server 2008

Hyper-V is a native hypervisor; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems and supersedes Windows Virtual PC as the hardware virtualization component of the client editions of Windows NT. A server computer running Hyper-V can be configured to expose individual virtual machines to one or more networks. Hyper-V Server supports remote access via Remote Desktop Connection. Administration and configuration of the host OS and the guest virtual machines is generally done over the network.