High-performance networking (HPN)

• Applies to:

  ✅ Windows Server 2025, ✅ Windows Server 2022, ✅ Windows Server 2019, ✅ Windows Server 2016, ✅ Azure Stack HCI, versions 23H2 and 22H2

High-performance networks (HPNs) play a role in real-time data processing requirements. For example, activities such as datacenter replication, datacenter disaster recovery, and high-performance distributed computing require high volume data transfer and low network latency. HPNs with dynamic connection capabilities make high-performance network resources more accessible and manageable. To learn more, see Host network requirements for Azure Stack HCI.

The high-performance networking topics include:

• Network offload and optimization technologies

  • Software only (SO) features and technologies

  • Software and hardware (SH) integrated features and technologies

  • Hardware Only (HO) features and technologies

  • NIC advanced properties

• RSC in the vSwitch