Announcing the NVGRE white paper
Ever since WS 2012 was in preview, the Hyper-V fans have
been celebrating the opportunities for network virtualization.
First in VMM 2012 SP1 Beta, we saw there were two options
to manage and implement network virtualization. IP-rewrite and NVGRE. Now, NVGRE
is the standard that is implemented with Windows Server 2012 and System Center
2012 SP1 – Virtual Machine Manager.
However, the hybrid cloud story wasn’t complete. A
critical component was missing to make the scenario production ready.
As Microsoft announced during TechEd this year, we will
have a native virtualization gateway shipped together with Windows Server 2012
R2. The entire network virtualization can be implemented and managed by Virtual
Machine Manager in System Center 2012 R2.
This did indeed increase the interest around network
virtualization with technology from Microsoft, with no need for third party
solutions to fulfill the story. Many users from around the world have been
asking questions in the forums related to network virtualization in the past,
and especially about virtualization gateway since this is available in Windows
Server 2012 R2. To address this to the community, we decided to write a white
paper that should be helpful for real
world implementations.
Together with some fellow MVP’s, Flemming Riis and Stanislav
Zhelyazkov, we started to deploy a new datacenter with the R2 preview bits in
order to fulfill the Hybrid Cloud story.
We have not only deployed the solution, but we have also
been breaking it apart to detect dependencies, eventual bugs, and concerns
related to real world scenarios.
We are looking
forward to finish the document in a couple of days, and we hope you will find
it useful.
