Typically, this level of scrutiny leads to a reduction in hardware and driver-related quality problems. These adapters support the most advanced platform features and have undergone the most testing by our hardware partners. Management traffic: Traffic important to an administrator for cluster management, such as Active Directory, Remote Desktop, Windows Admin Center, and Windows PowerShell.Īzure Stack HCI requires choosing a network adapter that has achieved the Windows Server Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) certification with the Standard or Premium Additional Qualification (AQ).Storage traffic: Traffic for Storage Spaces Direct (S2D), using Server Message Block (SMB).Compute traffic: Traffic originating from or destined for a virtual machine (VM).Network traffic typesĪzure Stack HCI network traffic can be classified by its intended purpose: For information on datacenter architectures and the physical connections between servers, see Physical network requirements.
This topic discusses host networking considerations and requirements for Azure Stack HCI.
