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

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Multiple subnets on VMware host

I have two VMware vSphere 5.1 hosts. Each host is connected via a switch to gateway 192.168.20.1. Currently both hosts have their vSwitches using network 192.168.20.0. I'd like to have the two hosts use different subnets, but still use the same…
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VMWare vSwitch VLAN IDs and tagged/untagged ports

Similar to this question: What happens when a port is configured as ACCESS and is a part of VLAN 'X' and we get a packet of VLAN 'Y' on that port? Will the switch drop it or it will add a VLAN header 'X' and forward to the respective port/ports…
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vSwitch configuration with 12 uplinks

I have been doing a lot of research on vSwitch configurations, but I think I am more confused now after all of the reading that I have done. So here is my situation 3 ESX Hosts (12 nics each), 1 iSCSI SAN, 2 Force 10 switches. Should I create…
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Block DHCP brodcasts with vSwitch

Is there a setting on a ESXi 5 vSwitch that will make it so DHCP broadcasts aren't forwarded to the rest of the network? I have a small micro server I'm testing some things out and I'd like a DHCP server to run for my VMs but don't want to change…
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Separate virtual switches or just VLAN separation for isolated networks?

I am building a small setup of ESX5 servers. There will be different apps running for different companies on them. Each company has a VM that has one Internet facing vNIC and one vNIC facing to this company's private virtual network (backend). The…
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Can you create ACLs with open vSwitch on XenServer 5.6FP1 without using the DVS appliance?

I have a pool of XenServer hosts running the Free version of XenServer 5.6 FP1. I was wondering if I change the network backend to use Open vSwitch if I can specify ACLs on individual network VIFs without needing to use the DVS appliance…
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Issues configuring the access ports (ubiquiti)

We currently have issues configuring the access ports for our servers on our rack switches(USW-EnterpriseXG-24). Since we've learned that ubiquiti does currently not support switch stacking (vswitch) - we'd like to know how we can accomplish network…
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Hyper-V virtual switch experiment

I recently learned that windows generally, server 2016 in my case can make use of the hyper-v virtual switch on the host machine as a way to tap into different vlan's. I have a repurposed gigabyte brix(i7 4th gen, 16 gigs ram, but tiny and no place…
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Send VM Traffic through Palo Alto Firewall in ESXi

I have a Palo Alto VM Series Firewall that I've spun up in an ESXi 6.0 box. How can I have the PAN act as a transparent firewall to all VM's on the box? I was expecting that I could use two vSwitches, one with the physical uplink to the internal…
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Hyper-V server 2019 – Internet not working for Guest VM

I’m trying something apparently very simple, and I reviewed former posts for 2 days about the subject without success: Setup a Hyper-V Server 2019 On that server, install a Gen-2 guest Virtual Machine (Windows server 2016 standard) That's ALL ! I…
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Hyper-V same host VM to VM communication

I am trying to get a concrete confirmation with supporting documentation on how vms communicate to each other if residing on the same host. From what I have read on multiple threads: 'VM's will not use the physical NIC if the two VMs are on the same…
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VMWare & VLANs - why am I able to access one VM but not another?

I have two virtual machines on a VMWare ESXi server - a Sophos Firewall and a Windows Server. On the LAN side of my network, I have a bunch of devices and a Cisco ATA connected to a real switch. This switch is connected to nic0 on the server. I am…
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link aggregation between vSwitch and physical switch?

Simple use case: one ESXi host installed on a physical server with two 1G NICs, both connected to one ToR physical L3 switch. The ESXi host has one vSwitch with both NICs as active uplinks, for failover and bandwidth purposes. So far I've always…
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Single vSwitch, multiple physical NICs, no way to team - is this possible?

I have two Hyper-V hosts connected to a single* ASA5505 appliance that does switching and routing for them and various VMs on those hypervisors. Now, as the traffic increases, the ASA became the bottleneck as it only has 100mbit/s ports, and we have…
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How to expose a virtual subnet to a physical NIC?

I've created a NAT switch on my Hyper-V host (host range 192.168.2.0/24), as described here. It works well, and I've got an old PDC running in its own subnet (subnet range 10.10.10.0/8). Problem: that PDC contains an old backup that I need to…
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