Preface

Welcome to Hyper-V Network Virtualization Cookbook. This book is an end-to-end introduction on how to implement Hyper-V Network Virtualization (HNV) on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V using System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager.

The purpose of this book is to help you get familiar with the components of Hyper-V Network Virtualization and the options available to you. It is assumed that you are familiar with Windows Server 2012 R2 and want to understand how to implement HNV.

Software-defined Networks (SDN) are networks decoupled from the traditional physical hardware. SDN allows IT and network administrators to react to changing business requirements faster as it removes the requirement to amend the physical infrastructure. Microsoft's implementation of SDN uses the NVGRE protocol, which is referred to as Hyper-V Network Virtualization.