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Thought experiment
Multiple tenants at Contoso
I n this thought experiment, apply what you've learned about this objective. You can
find answers to these questions in the “Answers” section at the end of this chapter.
Y ou work at a medium sized hosting provider. You have two 64 node failover
clusters that will host client virtual machines. You want to allow clients to use their
own address space. This may in some cases mean that VMs from different tenants
use the same local IP address. Organizations should be able to connect from their
remote sites through to the VMs hosted on the failover clusters. With this informa-
tion in mind, answer the following questions:
1. Which networking technology would you implement to meet requirements
2. What should you deploy to allow access from remote client sites each organiza-
tion's virtual machines?
Objective summary
■ A VMM logical network is a collection of network sites, VLAN information, and IP
subnet information.
■ A VMM deployment needs to have at least one logical network before you can use it
to deploy VMs or services.
■ VMM logical switches store network adapter configuration settings for use with VMM
managed virtualization hosts.
■ You use logical switch extensions to configure how the logical switch interacts with
network traffic.
■ Uplink port profiles specify which set of logical networks should be associated with
physical network adapters.
■ In the event that there are multiple network adapters on a virtualization host, an uplink
port profile specifies whether and how those adapters should participate in teaming.
■ You use port classifications to apply configurations based on functionality.
■ You can use network virtualization to configure logical networks in such a manner that
different VM tenants can utilize the same IP address space on the same virtualization
host without collisions occurring.
■ Virtual machines connect to a VMM logical network through a VMM virtual machine
network.
■ A MAC address pool gives you a pool of MAC addresses that can be assigned to virtual
machine network adapters across a group of virtualization hosts.
■ An IP address pool is a collection of IP addresses that, through an IP subnet, is associ-
ated with a network site.