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Part 11: Update, Backup and Restore SDN Environment

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Welcome to part 11 of my Server 2016 Features Series, I thought it was worth posting on this one because I managed to brick my SDN environment (in my lab) because I just went for it without following any real process…COME ON, we’ve all done it

There won’t be much new in here that Greg Cusanza at MS hasn’t covered in the great documentation he uploaded recently, so if nothing else, you’ll get a similar experience to that but with a slight Scottish flavour

At the time of writing, backup and restore of SDN was introduced in the most recent Cumulative Update, and as I alluded to earlier, getting this piece wrong can break your SDN environment, so it’s important that you get it right.

OK, that’s enough scaremongering…let’s get to it.

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Part 10: Deploy and Configure SDN Software Load Balancer Service

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Welcome to part 10 of my Server 2016 Features series. This guide will continue on from parts 8 and 9 where we learned a little about SDN v2 in Server 2016 and deployed our multi node Network Controller service (which is a prerequisite for our Software Load Balancer service). Going forward, I’ll be referring to our Software Load Balancer service as the SLB or SLB/MUX

As with the Network Controller service, this deployment will be done using a multi node (3 nodes) Service Template deployed by SCVMM.

Here’s a list of the tasks we’ll be covering:

With no further ado, let’s get to it.

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Part 9: Deploy and Configure SDN Network Controller Service

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Welcome to part 9 in the series folks, if you’ve not read the overview guide (at the link above), it’s worth doing that before continuing on to the deployment phase as reading it may shape some of your design decisions etc.

Here is a list of the main steps that we’ll be covering in this guide:

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