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Ensure the NIC is enabled in the BIOS and Windows and you should be able to use it. &nbsp;As a rule of thumb, you should have minimum 4 NICs.
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Ensure the NIC is enabled in the BIOS and Windows and you should be able to use it.  As a rule of thumb, you should have minimum 4 NICs.

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rack mounted server. &nbsp;windows 2008 r2 installed. &nbsp;hyper v role installed. &nbsp;windows 2003 server installed as a VM. &nbsp;<br />
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The rack server has 2 nic's. &nbsp;One nic is disabled when you look at the two nics on the windows 2008 r2 cp network connections interface. &nbsp;I want to use the disabled nic as the primary nic for the 2003 vm. &nbsp;is this possible
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rack mounted server.  windows 2008 r2 installed.  hyper v role installed.  windows 2003 server installed as a VM.  

The rack server has 2 nic's.  One nic is disabled when you look at the two nics on the windows 2008 r2 cp network connections interface.  I want to use the disabled nic as the primary nic for the 2003 vm.  is this possible

hyper-v question

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

Virtualization

Microsoft Virtual Server was a virtualization solution that facilitated the creation of virtual machines on the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Virtual machines are created and managed through a web-based interface that relies on Internet Information Services (IIS) or through a Windows client application tool called VMRCplus. Features included Linux guest operating system support, Virtual Disk Precompactor, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), x64 host operating system support, the ability to mount virtual hard drives on the host machine and additional operating systems support, including Windows Vista, and a volume shadow copy writer.

Microsoft Virtual Server

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.

Windows Server 2008

Hyper-V is a native hypervisor; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems and supersedes Windows Virtual PC as the hardware virtualization component of the client editions of Windows NT. A server computer running Hyper-V can be configured to expose individual virtual machines to one or more networks. Hyper-V Server supports remote access via Remote Desktop Connection. Administration and configuration of the host OS and the guest virtual machines is generally done over the network.