Verify Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) and Windows Server Settings for Azure Stack HCI Cluster

Verify Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) and Windows Server Settings for Azure Stack HCI Cluster

Question

Your network contains an on-premises Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain named contoso.com. The domain contains three servers that run

Windows Server and have the Hyper-V server role installed. Each server has a Switch Embedded Teaming (SET) team.

You need to verify that Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) and all the required Windows Server settings are configured properly on each server to support an

Azure Stack HCI cluster.

What should you use?

Answers

Explanations

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A. B. C. D.

D

https://github.com/Microsoft/Validate-DCB

To verify that Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) and all the required Windows Server settings are properly configured on each server in order to support an Azure Stack HCI cluster, you can use the Get-NetAdapter cmdlet, which is answer B.

The Get-NetAdapter cmdlet retrieves basic network adapter properties, such as name, status, and link speed, as well as more advanced properties, such as traffic statistics and network adapter hardware settings. The cmdlet can also display information about RDMA-capable network adapters, including their current RDMA settings.

To verify RDMA settings on each server, you can run the following command in PowerShell on each server:

Get-NetAdapter | where RDMAOverRoCEv2 | Format-Table Name, InterfaceDescription, RDMAOverRoCEv2Enabled, RDMAOverRoCEv2Provider, RDMAOverRoCEv2RnrMode, LinkSpeed, State

This command retrieves a list of network adapters on the server that support RDMA over RoCEv2 (RDMA over Converged Ethernet Version 2) and displays information about their RDMA settings, such as whether RDMA over RoCEv2 is enabled, the RDMA provider used, the RDMA rendezvous (RnR) mode, the link speed, and the current state of the adapter.

In addition to the Get-NetAdapter cmdlet, other tools such as Server Manager (answer A) and Failover Cluster Manager (answer C) can be used to manage and configure Windows Server settings, but they may not provide the detailed RDMA information required for validating an Azure Stack HCI cluster. The Validate-DCB cmdlet (answer D) is used to validate Data Center Bridging (DCB) settings, which are not directly related to RDMA.