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Component 
Manageable areas 
Fabric network 
management 
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Physical fabric management 
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IP subnets 
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VLANS 
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Layer 2 switches 
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Layer 3 switches 

Network adapters in hosts 
Firewall management 

Manage firewall rules into the vSwitch port of the VM estate 

Log traffic centrally on the switch 
Network monitoring 

Monitoring physical network 
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Monitoring virtual network 

Active networking monitoring 

Element data collected using SNMP polling and traps 
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Impact analysis 
Network topology and 
discovery management 

Discovery of network topology through elements 
Software load balancer 

Manage and configure load balancing rules 
Virtual network 
management 

Virtual network policies 

All elements of network virtualization 
RAS gateway 
management 

Add and remove gateway VMs from the cluster and specify the level of 
backup required 

Site-to-site Virtual Private Network (VPN) gateway connectivity 
between remote tenant networks and your datacenter using 
IPsec 

Site-to-site VPN gateway connectivity between remote tenant 
networks and your datacenter using Generic Routing 
Encapsulation (GRE) 

Point-to-site VPN gateway connectivity so that your tenants’ 
administrators can access their resources on your datacenter 
from anywhere 

Layer 3 forwarding capability 

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing, with which you can 
manage the routing of network traffic between your tenants’ VM 
networks and their remote sites 

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More info In this book, we cannot provide an exhaustive review of all features and details in 
relation to Network Controller. We encourage you to review the public TechNet article at 
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/library/dn859239.aspx
 for additional information. 
Additionally, Network Controller is a complex element to deploy and get working. The following 
articles will provide you with the most up to date documentation for deploying and configuring 
Network Controller in Windows Server 2016: 
“Installation and preparation requirements for deploying Network Controller”: 
https://technet.microsoft.com/library/mt691521.aspx 
“Deploy Network Controller using Windows PowerShell”: 
https://technet.microsoft.com/library/mt282165.aspx