Users Guide
15–Windows Server 2016
Configuring Storage Spaces Direct
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2. Enable Network Quality of Service.
3. Create a Hyper-V virtual switch with Switch Embedded Teaming (SET) and 
RDMA virtual NIC as follows:
a. To identify the network adapters, issue the following command:
Get-NetAdapter | FT 
Name,InterfaceDescription,Status,LinkSpeed
b. To create a virtual switch connected to all of the physical network 
adapters, and to then enable SET, issue the following command:
New-VMSwitch -Name SETswitch -NetAdapterName 
"<port1>","<port2>","<port3>","<port4>" 
–EnableEmbeddedTeaming $true
c. To add host virtual NICs to the virtual switch, issue the following 
commands:
Add-VMNetworkAdapter –SwitchName SETswitch –Name SMB_1 
–managementOS 
Add-VMNetworkAdapter –SwitchName SETswitch –Name SMB_2 
–managementOS
d. To configure the host virtual NIC to use a vLAN, issue the following 
commands:
Set-VMNetworkAdapterVlan -VMNetworkAdapterName "SMB_1" 
-VlanId 5 -Access -ManagementOS
Set-VMNetworkAdapterVlan -VMNetworkAdapterName "SMB_2" 
-VlanId 5 -Access -ManagementOS
NOTE
Network Quality of Service is used to ensure that the Software Defined 
Storage system has enough bandwidth to communicate between the 
nodes to ensure resiliency and performance. To configure QoS on the 
adapter, see “Configuring QoS for RoCE” on page 259.
NOTE
The preceding commands configure the virtual NIC from the 
virtual switch that you just configured for the management 
operating system to use.










