Hello all,
I'm in the process of testing a new HyperV 2012 r2 build on a pair of servers, each with two 10GBe NICs. On each server I've LBFO teamed these NICs (Switch Independent, Dynamic Mode) and connected a HyperV switch. On each host I've created vNICs for Management, CSV, LM and two foriSCSI. Outside of this single team of two NICs, I have no other networking on these boxes, I'm fully converged. It's my understanding that since I'm fully converged and using dVMQ for each NIC, I won't have RSS as they can't co-exist?
If so, I understand and accept this. My next question is, and this may sound silly but, without RSS, does that mean I also can't have vRSS in my VMs? If I'm understanding the technology correctly, the host-level requirement for vRSS is only dVMQ and not RSS.
I assume I'm wrong here because in my testing, with dVMQ configured correctly on the host (I believe) and vRSS enabled on the VMs - I still see all networking traffic on a single core of my VM. Or is it possibe and I'm misconfigured?
Lastly, is it worth it (or even possible) to not use dVMQ and therefore enable RSS on my pNICs?
Thanks a ton!