ohmErnie
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Assigning IP Addresses on 2012 Hyper-V Host NICs and Guest NICs
I'm new to virtualization, so this question is probably basic. I have a physical server 3 with 3 NIC's. 1 for Management and 1 dedicated for each guest os (total of 2). During the installation of adding Hyper-V, I chose only the 2 NIC's for the guests and left the manage NIC out.
Do I need to now assign a static IP to the physical NIC and different ip to the dedicated guest NIC or does traffic pass through since it is bound?
Right now, it looks like both NIC's are grabbing an IP from DHCP.
I am guessing I need a total of 5 static IP's for this configuration?
Do I need to now assign a static IP to the physical NIC and different ip to the dedicated guest NIC or does traffic pass through since it is bound?
Right now, it looks like both NIC's are grabbing an IP from DHCP.
I am guessing I need a total of 5 static IP's for this configuration?
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Assign IP Addresses either via DHCP or Static to yuor Guest VMs.
I would recommend the use of static IP Addresses to Servers.
I would recommend the use of static IP Addresses to Servers.
I guess all the NICs are currently connecting to the same switch and the same subnet. Right?
> Do I need to now assign a static IP to the physical NIC and different ip to the dedicated guest NIC or does traffic pass through since it is bound?
If so, commonly there is no need to change. The physical NIC and guest NIC (in bridge mode) will be having two different IPs, but of the same subnet if they all grab their IP from the same DHCP server.
For guest NIC in NAT mode, it will be assigned a different internal IP, by Hyper-V. You may change the settings in Virtual Networking Manager.