James Wilkinson
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Trunking in Hyper-V 2016 (Physical switch trunk to vswitch)
I wish to configure a vSwitch in Hyper-V.
I have a 6-port trunk (3 from one physical switch and 3 from another). I thought i would only have to click create vSwitch and then select the NIC's which are configured as trunks on the physical switches, however i can only select one NIC per vSwitch.
I have read up and a couple of guides suggest that this can be achieved using powershell only.
If someone could educate me with this that would be amazing. Maybe i am missing something critical here.
I have a 6-port trunk (3 from one physical switch and 3 from another). I thought i would only have to click create vSwitch and then select the NIC's which are configured as trunks on the physical switches, however i can only select one NIC per vSwitch.
I have read up and a couple of guides suggest that this can be achieved using powershell only.
If someone could educate me with this that would be amazing. Maybe i am missing something critical here.
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Excellent. You should be able to create a switch independant team and configured it with a Dynamic load balancing algorithm. Try that out and see how that works for you.
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Its looking good so far, ill be back soon with the result 👍
A port that the NIC is plugged into is "Trunked". Then, at the switch level VLANs are assigned to that trunked port.
In Hyper-V, open the VM's properties and click on the vNIC. A setting is there to assign a VLAN tag.
That's how to have packets routed accordingly.
My EE article Some Hyper-V Hardware & Software Best Practices talks about networking.
In Hyper-V, open the VM's properties and click on the vNIC. A setting is there to assign a VLAN tag.
That's how to have packets routed accordingly.
My EE article Some Hyper-V Hardware & Software Best Practices talks about networking.
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Worked perfectly, this was the missing link
Thank you
Thank you
Glad to help. :)
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VLAN Trunk ports 802.1q.
Ill have a go at teaming them. Ive been reading about this but I didn't know which way to go.