Windows Server supported networking scenarios

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02/22/2022
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✅ Windows Server 2025, ✅ Windows Server 2022, ✅ Windows Server 2019, ✅ Windows Server 2016

This topic provides information about supported and unsupported scenarios that you can or cannot perform with this release of Windows Server 2016.

Important

For all production scenarios, use the latest signed hardware drivers from your original equipment manufacturer (OEM) or independent hardware vendor (IHV).

Supported Networking Scenarios

This section includes information about the supported networking scenarios for Windows Server 2016, and includes the following scenario categories.

Software Defined Networking (SDN) scenarios
Network Platform scenarios
DNS Server scenarios
IPAM scenarios with DHCP and DNS
NIC Teaming scenarios
Switch Embedded Teaming (SET) scenarios

Software Defined Networking (SDN) scenarios

You can use the following documentation to deploy SDN scenarios with Windows Server 2016.

Deploy a Software Defined Network infrastructure using scripts

For more information, see Software Defined Networking (SDN).

Network Controller scenarios

The Network Controller scenarios allow you to:

Deploy and manage a multiple-node instance of Network Controller. For more information, see Deploy Network Controller using Windows PowerShell.
Use Network Controller to programmatically define network policy by using the REST Northbound API.
Use Network Controller to create and manage virtual networks with Hyper-V Network Virtualization - using NVGRE or VXLAN encapsulation.

For more information, see Network Controller.

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) scenarios

The NFV scenarios allow you to:

Deploy and use a software load balancer to distribute both northbound and southbound traffic.
Deploy and use a software load balancer to distribute eastbound and westbound traffic for virtual networks created with Hyper-V Network Virtualization.
Deploy and use a NAT software load balancer for virtual networks created with Hyper-V Network Virtualization.
Deploy and use a Layer 3 forwarding gateway
Deploy and use a virtual private network (VPN) gateway for site-to-site IPsec (IKEv2) tunnels
Deploy and use a Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) gateway.
Deploy and configure dynamic routing and transit routing between sites using Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).
Configure M+N redundancy for Layer 3 and site-to-site gateways, and for BGP routing.
Use Network Controller to specify ACLs on virtual networks and network interfaces.

For more information, see Network Function Virtualization.

Network Platform scenarios

For the scenarios in this section the Windows Server Networking team supports the use of any Windows Server 2016 certified driver. Please check with your network interface card (NIC) manufacturer to ensure you have the most recent driver updates.

The network platform scenarios allow you to:

Use a converged NIC to combine both RDMA and Ethernet traffic using a single network adapter.
Create a low-latency data path by using Packet Direct, enabled in the Hyper-V Virtual Switch, and a single network adapter.
Configure SET to spread SMB Direct and RDMA traffic flows between up to two network adapters.

For more information, see Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) and Switch Embedded Teaming (SET).

Hyper-V Virtual Switch Scenarios

The Hyper-V Virtual Switch scenarios allow you to:

Create a Hyper-V Virtual Switch with a Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) vNIC
Create a Hyper-V Virtual Switch with Switch Embedded Teaming (SET) and RDMA vNICs
Create a SET team in Hyper-V Virtual Switch
Manage a SET team by using Windows PowerShell commands

For more information, see Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) and Switch Embedded Teaming (SET)

DNS Server scenarios

DNS Server scenarios allow you to:

Specify Geo-Location based traffic management using DNS Policies
Configure split-brain DNS using DNS Policies
Apply filters on DNS queries using DNS Policies
Configure Application Load Balancing using DNS Policies
Specify Intelligent DNS Responses based on the time of day
Configure DNS Zone transfer policies
Configure DNS server policies on Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) integrated zones
Configure Response Rate Limiting
Specify DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE)
Configure support for Unknown Records in DNS

For more information, see the topics What's New in DNS Client in Windows Server 2016 and What's New in DNS Server in Windows Server 2016.

IPAM scenarios with DHCP and DNS

The IPAM scenarios allow you to:

Discover and administer DNS and DHCP servers and IP addressing across multiple federated Active Directory forests
Use IPAM for centralized management of DNS properties, including zones and resource records.
Define granular role-based access control policies and delegate IPAM users or user groups to manage the set of DNS properties that you specify.
Use the Windows PowerShell commands for IPAM to automate access control configuration for DHCP and DNS.

For more information, see Manage IPAM.

NIC Teaming scenarios

The NIC Teaming scenarios allow you to:

Create a NIC team in a supported configuration
Delete a NIC team
Add network adapters to the NIC team in a supported configuration
Remove network adapters from the NIC team

Note

In Windows Server 2016, you can use NIC Teaming in Hyper-V, however in some cases Virtual Machine Queues (VMQ) might not automatically enable on the underlying network adapters when you create a NIC Team. If this occurs, you can use the following Windows PowerShell command to ensure that VMQ is enabled on the NIC team member adapters: Set-NetAdapterVmq -Name <NetworkAdapterName> -Enable

Switch Embedded Teaming (SET) scenarios

SET is an alternative NIC Teaming solution that you can use in environments that include Hyper-V and the Software Defined Networking (SDN) stack in Windows Server 2016. SET integrates some NIC Teaming functionality into the Hyper-V Virtual Switch.