Hyper-V's (internal or External) Virtual Switch
Questions tagged [vswitch]
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No Internet Access in VMWare VM and specific VLAN
I have a VM that was in a VLAN (3) and has a static IP address. Yesterday i could not connect via rdp and found out that it lost its connection. Things I tried first:
Disable / Enable Network Adapter
Change VM Adapter Typ
Reboot the Machine
But…

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Separate VMWare ESXi monitored by one Security Onion instance - possible?
I'm running multiple VMWare ESXi (free) instances installed on blade system. Is there any possibility to monitor this multiple instances (which are not using any distributed vswitch - each has its own) using one standalone Security Onion instance?…

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ESXi network setup for VMs which connect to the Internet through PfSense
Using ESXi v6 with the following setup:
One standard Switch: vSwitch0
vSwitch0 has one uplink physical adapter (Internet connected, and
this is the only physical adapter)
vSwitch0 VM Network has 3 virtual
machines (Web Accessible, using Static…

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Remove hyper-v virtual switch extensions adapters from device manager
After reading the solution to this question I still cannot solve my problem.
In my device manager I still see this virtual switch, but it's not present in my hyper-v manager and using the powershell command doesn't show anything at all.
I already…

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Is there any ways to route ESXi vSwitch via another vSwitch?
Due to specific terms of service provider I need a solution for the following problem.
I have two hosts with a LAN port group for the VM's. Hosts are connected to each other with RPN network. I can't attach images, so here is the link to the…

SimWhite
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VMWare ESXI vNetworking - vSwitches bridged by multiple multiple Layer 2 bridge hosts
I want to create a multi-VM pfsense cluster ESXI. For those that are not familiar with pfsense, consider it a Free BSD based router/switch (with many features on top of it, but not necessary for this question).
Basically, I want to have two physical…

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Creating a bridged network in ESXi VSphere using VSphere client
I'm new to ESXi and i'm trying to configure a small server of guest machines, each running windows 7 starter.
my goal is to let the workers connect to the ESXi server, get a windows "computer" and be able to connect to the cisco switch from…

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How to configure NIC teaming on free VMWare ESXi 5.5?
There are articles online that describe this process for paid version of ESXi via VDS. My understanding is that VDS is not available on free ESXi version. We, however, do not need fully blown HA on our ESXi host, but what I want to achieve is simple…

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How to remove a VLAN tag from a VSwitch (VSW) in LDom OVM SPARC
I have a OVM SPARC 3.x server and one of its switches is set with a vlan tag.
In the example below the VSW has a VID of 200. How do I remove the tag?
I cannot remove the vswitch, as other guests are using the untagged vlan.
root@my-server:/# ldm ls…

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Promiscous mode on vmware workstation
I am trying to do the network setup in the openstack configuration on 3 Ubuntu vm with vmware workstation, but in order to work I get the following indication : If you are building your OpenStack nodes as virtual machines, you must configure the…

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Emulate VMware vswitch on KVM
I'm wondering how I would go about emulating how a standard vswitch works in KVM.
In VMware you have the following:
vmnic -> vswitch(tagged) -> port group (untagged)
So all traffic going to the standard vswitch is tagged and the tags are stripped…

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Is Open vSwitch necessary for my setup?
I've been considering moving my VMware-based dedicated server to Linux using KVM/QEMU. The only major hurdle remaining is networking. My current setup is:
NIC <---> Public vSwitch <---> Router (IPFire) <---> Private vSwitch <---> VMs
The host has…

Craig Watson
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Can 2 VMs communicate if not on the same vSwitch?
I have two vSwitches like this:
On vSwitch0, I have 3 VMs.
On vSwitch1, I have 1 VM.
I want to know if it is possible for the VM on vSwitch1 to communicate with a VM on vSwitch0 without going through the physical NIC (or vNIC), since it's on the…

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ESXi with 1 vSwitch using multiple teamed NICs each connected on a seperate physical switch for resilience/redundancy
I've read many posts (even from vmware) saying that in ESXi, NICs teamed in a vSwitch should all be connected to the same physical switch.
I found nothing about what I am describing below and in my opinion, this infringes the resilience/redundancy…

Eric
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Is Hyper-V Internal Switch on a different namespace/VRF?
Query about Internal switch in Hyper-V:
Say, my host's LAN IP is 192.168.1.0/24 (physical NIC) and is in an office building. Now, say there was a 10.10.10.0/24 network reachable from my host on that LAN network (since the default gateway on that LAN…

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