Like the Hyper-V virtual switch, virtual network adapters are mostly self-explanatory. Hyper-V provides virtual network adapters to its virtual machines, and those communicate directly with the virtual switch. It can use single or teamed physical network adapters to serve as uplinks to a physical switch in order to communicate with other computers on the physical network. That is to say, it is a software construct operating within the active memory of a Hyper-V host that performs Ethernet frame switching functionality. The very first thing that you must understand is that Hyper-V’s virtual switch is truly a virtual switch.
Because that product needlessly over-complicates the situation with multiple pointless layers, the solid grounding on the Hyper-V virtual switch that can be obtained from this article is absolutely critical if you don’t want to be hopelessly lost in VMM. If you know all about the Hyper-V virtual switch and you can skip to a guide on how to create one.įor an overall guide to Hyper-V networking read my post titled “ The Complete Guide to Hyper-V Networking“.Ī side note on System Center Virtual Machine Manager: I will not spend any time in this article on network configuration for SCVMM.
Digesting this article will provide the necessary knowledge to properly plan a Hyper-V virtual switch and understand how it will operate in production. Fortunately, once you invest the time to learn about it, you will find it quite simple. The Hyper-V virtual switch presents one of the product’s steeper initial conceptual hurdles. Networking in Hyper-V commonly confuses newcomers, even those with experience in other hypervisors. It has been fully updated to be current as of September 2019. Note: This article was originally published in June 2018.
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