Microsoft has announced a new free ebook within their System Center series, titled "Microsoft System Center: Network Virtualization and Cloud Computing" - authored by series editor, Mitch Tulloch with Nader Benmessaoud, CJ Williams, and Uma Mahesh Mudigonda.

As businesses move more toward cloud computing, one important factor for success is adopting multi-tenant software-defined networking (SDN) solutions in data centers. Hyper-V Network Virtualization (HNV) is a key enabler for a multi-tenant SDN solution and is essential for implementing a hybrid cloud environment where tenants can bring not only their own IPs, but their entire network topology since the virtualized networks are abstracted from the underlying fabric network. Network virtualization in general and Hyper-V Network Virtualization in particular are relatively new concepts. Unlike server virtualization, which is a mature, widely-understood technology, network virtualization still lacks this kind of broad familiarity.

This 94 page ebook identifies some key usage and deployment scenarios for cloud computing to provide some deep technical background on the Microsoft SDN solution, enabling IT professionals to quickly learn the internals of HNV, how it works from end to end, and where and how it should be used.

The ebook is broken out into two large chapters.  Chapter one covers Hyper-V Network Virtualization Internals (an overview, architecture and key concepts, packet flows, setup procedures) and Chapter two covers Implementing Cloud Computing with Network Virtualization (key cloud computing scenarios enabled by HNV, HNV gateway, multi-tenant TCP/IP stack, multi-tenant gateway information, dynamic routing with BGP, and additional resources).

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