Ensuring Hyper-V is not lost in translation

The subject matter of the course this week was networking, something that I felt pretty confident about. I know networking: I've written about it for years; done the Cisco CCNA course and set up plenty of routers and switches in my time. However I on the spur of the moment found myself handling a brand new vocabulary and was transported back to the German health insurance scheme incident.

The concepts came thick

In this week's courses the concepts came thick and fast. Teaming - running two cables into a single host. Virtual Machine Chimney, an evocative phrase, describes a method by which VM Chimney in Hyper-V allows a VM to offload its network processing load onto the NIC of the host computer.

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