Show There are three types of virtual switches that may be created in the Virtual Switch Manager. They are External, Internal, and Private. Let’s briefly take a look at the differences between these types of switches. Try NAKIVO Backup & Replication: “Best of VMworld 2018” Gold Award Winner for Data Protection Types of Virtual SwitchesExternal – This type of switch is bound to the physical network cards located in the host. As you would imagine, they provide VMs located on these switches with access to the physical network the Hyper-V host is connected to. The External switch can also share management traffic as well as VM traffic on the same switch and this is one of the options that can be set when creating the external switch. Internal – This switch is not bound to a physical network card so it only allows traffic between VMs and the host itself. However, a new addition to the Internal switch functionality in 2016 is the addition of the NAT forwarding internal switch which does allow external connectivity via NAT from the Hyper-V host. Private – This type of switch is only used for virtual machines to communicate with each other. This type of switch might be useful for certain specific types of traffic such as cluster network if only using one host as it can’t be utilized between hosts. Data Protection with NAKIVO Backup & Replication NAKIVO Backup & Replication delivers high-end data protection for SMBs and enterprises with multiple backup, replication and recovery features, including VMware Backup, Hyper-V Backup, Office 365 Backup and more. Get the Free Trial now! How to create Virtual Switches in Hyper-V?
ThoughtsIn this post, we looked at the differences between the various virtual network switches in Hyper-V and what each can be used for along with creating our first external network switch to allow VM connectivity. In the next post, we will take a look at copying over installation media and creating our first virtual machine on the Hyper-V host along with the various settings and options to be configured.
A virtual switch allows virtual machines created on Hyper-V hosts to communicate with other computers. You can create a virtual switch when you first install the Hyper-V role on Windows Server. To create additional virtual switches, use Hyper-V Manager or Windows PowerShell. To learn more about virtual switches, see Hyper-V Virtual Switch. Virtual machine networking can be a complex subject. And there are several new virtual switch features that you may want to use like Switch Embedded Teaming (SET). But basic networking is fairly easy to do. This topic covers just enough so that you can create networked virtual machines in Hyper-V. To learn more about how you can set up your networking infrastructure, review the Networking documentation. Create a virtual switch by using Hyper-V Manager
Create a virtual switch by using Windows PowerShell
For more advanced Windows PowerShell scripts that cover improved or new virtual switch features in Windows Server 2016, see Remote Direct Memory Access and Switch Embedded Teaming. Next stepCreate a virtual machine in Hyper-V |