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Thanks so much.<br />
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So in the real world, network admins use smart switches (albeit much more expensive, of course) to do what I'm trying to do?
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Thanks so much.

So in the real world, network admins use smart switches (albeit much more expensive, of course) to do what I'm trying to do?

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We call them managed switches. (Layer 2 or Layer 3)<br />
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you can read up on the definitions hew<br />
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<a href="http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac123/ac147/archived_issues/ipj_1-2/switch_evolution.html" rel="ugc">http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac123/ac147/archived_issues/ipj_1-2/switch_evolution.html</a><br />
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But yes.
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We call them managed switches. (Layer 2 or Layer 3)

you can read up on the definitions hew

http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac123/ac147/archived_issues/ipj_1-2/switch_evolution.html [http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac123/ac147/archived_issues/ipj_1-2/switch_evolution.html]

But yes.

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HI all,<br />
<br />
I'm trying to create a home lab Windows 2012 network using virtual machines in VMware.<br />
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In order to create a network environment where the Server 2012 acts as DHCP and DNS server (without conflicting with my home router), I purchased a cheap smart switch that allows for VLAN. This switch allows me to create:<br />
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1. Port Based VLAN<br />
2. 802.1Q VLAN<br />
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Which should I choose? 802.1Q appears to be more involved and difficult, but I don't mind wrestling with it if it's a better solution for the real world.<br />
<br />
Thanks in advance.
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HI all,

I'm trying to create a home lab Windows 2012 network using virtual machines in VMware.

In order to create a network environment where the Server 2012 acts as DHCP and DNS server (without conflicting with my home router), I purchased a cheap smart switch that allows for VLAN. This switch allows me to create:

1. Port Based VLAN
2. 802.1Q VLAN

Which should I choose? 802.1Q appears to be more involved and difficult, but I don't mind wrestling with it if it's a better solution for the real world.

Thanks in advance.

VMWare and VLAN

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

VMware

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.