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Hyper-V's (internal or External) Virtual Switch

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Display Hyper-V vSwitch configuration in Powershell

Is there a way to display the full settings of a specific Hyper-V vSwitch using Powershell? I'm trying to configure port-mirroring from the vSwitch to the Destination vNIC on a VM and so I've set the vSwitch as the mirror Source but I want to be…
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Can NICs/vSwitches be 'shared' on a Hyper-V 2016 host?

I've been reading documentation until my vision is blurred. I'm sure this has a simple solution, but all the docs I'm finding go into excruciating detail on how to set something up—nothing on whether a particular configuration is a good fit for my…
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Why does Hyper-V not enable this VMSwitchExtension?

The long and short of it is: PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-VMSwitch vSwitch Name SwitchType NetAdapterInterfaceDescription ---- ---------- ------------------------------ vSwitch External Intel(R) Ethernet Connection (2) I219-V PS…
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Hyper-V guest doesn't see the internet through external virtual switch

I have a Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials host with 1 NIC and I installed a Hyper-V guest of the same type (Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials). I added an external virtual switch (allowing management operating system to share this adapter) and the…
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Finding/Setting vSwitch for Ethernet Adapter

I have a virtualization host (could be either VSphere or SCVVM) that has four NICs, two 1 gbps and two 10 gbps. This machine hosts a VM on two vSwitches with unique names (such as vSwitch0 and vSwitch1), one is on a 1 gbps NIC and the other on a 10…
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Can a virtual switch be depatched?

Is it possible to depatch a virtual switch; And is there any point to doing so on a virtual switch?
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VMware ESX: Unable to delete PortGroup. 1 active ports

At work we have an ESX 4.1 cluster with some vlan's (Port Groups) configured on a vswitch on each host. A lot of these port groups aren't in use anymore so we decided to clean them up. We don't have a distributed vswitch, so each port group has to…
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Hyper-V swich, give internal network access to Internet on Win 8

I'm running a lab environment on my W8 laptop, using Hyper-V. I've set up a virtual switch that's internal, but I would prefer to give the internal machines access to the internet. Ok, why not an external switch then? Well, for starters I only have…
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Bridging two (a physical ethernet with a virtual ethernet) different subnets on linux?

I am thinking if it's possible to create a bridge while allowing each bridged network to exist in it's own subnet. Network 1 - Say, I have a physical ethernet based network eth01 - with subnet 192.168.x.x/16. Network 2 - I want to create another…
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Creating a virtual switch between two VMs, without a physical uplink, in VMware ESXi/vSphere

I am trying to create a virtual switch in VMware ESXi 6.7.0, to be used only for communicating between two virtual machines. I created the switch without an uplink and added it to two machines. In the first VM (Windows Server 2016 machine with two…
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Unidentified Network on Hyper V External Switch

I'm trying to install Windows Server 2012 R2 DataCenter on Hyper-V Windows 8.1. I've enabled Hyper-V Virtualization from BIOS/UEFI and installed Server 2012 R2 with no issues at all. But now when I want to install AD DS on server I need to assign…
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Guest VMs cant reach each other on Different ESXi Servers

I have two vSphere EXSI 6 servers both setup with the same vSwitchs and connected to the same physical switches Server 1: eth0 => vlan143 (mapped to CORE/Management vSwitch) eht1 => vlan140 (mapped to SAT vSwitch) eth2 => vlan141 (mapped to ACK…
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How to subnet in virtual SMB networks

I'm setting up a Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V role in a typically SMB environment (virtualized DC and Exchange on one single Host). Before, in the SBS times, there usually was one physical server, a handful of PCs and one subnet. Now, with…
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VMWare - Connecting two hosts (not physically connected) via a vSwitch

I have an esxi 5.5 host in Chicago and Dallas. Both servers are controlled by my vcenter server. I have a MySQL server in chicago that is accessed through an internal only vswitch from the servers on that host. I now need to access it from the…
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Esx 5.5 how to link vswitch1 with vswitch0?

I am not so good in virtual networking. The problem that I'm facing now is, I have 2 vswitches, vswitch1 and vswitch0. Vswitch0 has internet access and public ip. Vswitch1 has no adapter and has been assigned private ip. So, the question is, how to…
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