- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Introduction
- Terminology
- Hardware best practices
- Networking best practices
- Windows Server 2012 R2 best practices
- Microsoft Storage Spaces best practices
- Cluster best practices
- Scale-Out File Server best practices
- Converged best practices
- Getting help
Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces Best Practices Guide
Network interface cards
Configure NICs on all clients and servers for jumbo frames with the MTU frame size set to 9 KB. Also, ensure that flow control is enabled on every NIC. Typically, flow control is enabled by default for NICs that support this feature.
To verify
that flow control is enabled on every NIC:
- By using Server Manager, open the Network Connections page. Else, enter the PowerShell command < ncpa.cpl> at the Shell command line interface.
- Select the NIC, and then click Properties.
- In Properties, click Configure. In the dialog box, click the Advanced tab. Under Property, click Flow Control, and then select appropriate property from the Value drop-down menu.
Also, it is a best practice to rename all networks, in Windows Server Failover Cluster Manager, based on their function by using names such as Manage, External, or Cluster.
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