Beginners Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V: How to Create a Virtual Switch in Hyper-V using Windows Admin Center — Part 33

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We have described Windows Admin Center and the powerful interface it brings to the table to manage your Microsoft Hyper-V environments. With Windows Admin Center, you can manage virtual machines in your Hyper-V environment, including virtual networking. Let’s look at how we can manage Hyper-V virtual networks using traditional tools and also using Windows Admin Center.

What are Hyper-V virtual switches?

Hypervisors like Hyper-V need a way to get the packets out of the virtual network and into the physical network for hosting workloads. The Hyper-V virtual switch serves this purpose to up-link the virtual network adapters of the Hyper-V vNICs to the physical network.

It also allows connecting to virtual networks on the server when you run the Microsoft Software Defined Networking (SDN) stack. The Hyper-V virtual switch is a software-enabled layer-2 Ethernet network switch that allows Hyper-V admins to manage their virtual networking programmatically and extend functionality as needed to connect their Hyper-V virtual machines to the physical network.

It also provides more advanced features such as traffic isolation, traffic shaping, and security features that help to protect VMs from malicious types of traffic, such as spoofing. ISVs can also create plugins with additional capabilities with the Hyper-V virtual switch to extend its feature set.

The Hyper-V virtual switch also provides trunk mode capabilities to virtual machines, allowing admins to funnel traffic between different VLANs and the virtual machine. The VLAN capabilities also include private VLANs.

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