Figure 2 depicts the integration of the fully-converged architecture.

Figure 2.              Fully-Converged network topology with 2 NIC ports

Figure 3 depicts the fully-converged network topology with 4 NIC ports.

Figure 3.              Fully-Converged network topology with 4 NIC ports

In the fully-converged network topology all storage ports from the server are connected to the same network fabric. Within the host OS, the NIC ports are used for both storage and management/VM traffic. Figure 4 depicts this configuration in the host OS.

Figure 4.              Host OS network configuration in fully-converged topology with 2 NIC ports

In this host OS network configuration, a switch embedded team is created with two or four physical ports and virtual adapters in the host OS implemented for Storage 1, Storage 2, and Management traffic.

Note: The number of virtual storage adapters in the host OS should match the number of physical ports in the SET.

Figure 5 depicts using 4 NIC ports for the switch embedded team in fully-converged topology.

Figure 5.              Host OS network configuration in fully-converged topology with 4 NIC ports

The storage adapters in this configuration can use either a single or 2 or 4 VLANs.

Deployment Instructions

This section provides the PowerShell commands to configure the fully-converged network topology in which a single SET switch is used for both storage and management/VM traffic. 

$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'

#region Variables for the scenario

# You must specify 2 or 4 network adapter port names

$netAdapterName = @('SLOT 2 PORT 1','SLOT 2 PORT 2')

$switchName = 'S2DSwitch'

# Management Adapter Parameters

$managementAdapterName = 'Management'

# VLAN ID for host management traffic; if no VLAN is preferred set this to 0

$managementVlanId = 102

# Management Gateway address

$managementGateway = '172.16.102.1'

# DNS server address

$managementDns = '172.16.102.2'

# Set this to a string 'DHCP' for a dynamic IP address

$managementIPAddress = '172.16.102.51'

# Management address prefix (24 translates to subnet mask 255.255.255.0)

$managementAddressPrefix = 24

# Storage Adapter Parameters

$storageAdapterPrefix = 'Storage'

# You must specify 1 or 2 or 4 VLANIDs

# You can use 0 as the value if you don't want to use VLANs for storage traffic

$storageVlanId = @(103,104)

# You must specify 2 or 4 IP Addresses

# DHCP as a value is accepted if you want dynamically assigned IP addresses

$storageIPAddress = @('171.16.103.51','172.16.104.51')

# You can specify 1 or 2 or 4 prefix length values

$StorageAddressPrefix = @(24)

#endregion

## Create a VM switch for management and Storage traffic

$null = New-VMSwitch -Name $switchName -AllowManagementOS 0 -NetAdapterName $netAdapterName -Verbose

## Add VM Network Adapters and configure VLANs and IP addresses as needed

### Management Adapter

$managementAdapter = Add-VMNetworkAdapter -SwitchName $SwitchName -ManagementOS -Passthru -Name $managementAdapterName -Verbose

if ($managementVlanId -and ($managementVlanId -ne 0))

{

    Set-VMNetworkAdapterVlan -VMNetworkAdapter $managementAdapter -Access -VlanId $managementVlanId -Verbose

    Start-Sleep -Seconds 5

}

if ($ManagementIPAddress -ne 'DHCP')

{

    $null = New-NetIPAddress -InterfaceAlias "vEthernet ($managementAdapterName)" -IPAddress $managementIPAddress -DefaultGateway $managementGateway -PrefixLength $managementAddressPrefix -Verbose

    Set-DnsClientServerAddress -InterfaceAlias "vEthernet ($managementAdapterName)" -ServerAddresses $managementDns -Verbose

}

### Storage Adapters

for ($i = 0; $i -lt $netAdapterName.Count; $i++)

{

    $storageAdapterName = "${storageAdapterPrefix}$($i+1)"

    # if there is a single VLAN for storage use the first and only element

    if ($storageVlanId.Count -eq 1)

    {

        $storageVlan = $storageVlanId[0]

    }

    else

    {

        # else use the right index to get the VLAN ID

        $storageVlan = $storageVlanId[$i]

    }

    # Check if only one prefix is provided

    if ($StorageAddressPrefix.Count -eq 1)

    {

        $StoragePrefix = $StorageAddressPrefix[0]

    }

    else

    {

        # if more than one, use the right index to get the address prefix

        $StoragePrefix = $StorageAddressPrefix[$i]

    }

    $storageAdapter = Add-VMNetworkAdapter -SwitchName $SwitchName -ManagementOS -Passthru -Name $storageAdapterName -Verbose

    if ($storageVlan -and ($storageVlan -ne 0))

    {

        # Set VM Network adapter VLAN only if the VLAN ID specified is other than 0     

        Set-VMNetworkAdapterVlan -VMNetworkAdapter $storageAdapter -Access -VlanId $storageVlan -Verbose

        Start-Sleep -Seconds 5

    }

    if ($StorageIPAddress[$i] -ne 'DHCP')

    {

        $null = New-NetIPAddress -InterfaceAlias "vEthernet ($storageAdapterName)" -IPAddress $StorageIPAddress[$i] -PrefixLength $StoragePrefix -Verbose    

    }

}