I'm trying to setup a lab environment with Hyper-V on Win8. It's going to be a 2012 R2 domain controller, one other 2012 R2 server, and a Win8 VM. The purpose of it is to give me someplace to "play" while I go through some training videos for System Center, Config Manager, Powershell, etc etc.
I have everything up and running, including the domain, but the problem I'm running into now is that either I keep everything on the External Network virtual switch I setup, or isolate it on a Private Network switch. The problem with External is that I can't give the VM's static IP's, because I don't have access to the production DHCP server or the list of available static IP's. And the problem with Private is that when I want to test out software update deployments via SCCM, I'll need Internet access.
So basically what I'm thinking is to setup an IP range for use on the VM network, but which also has access to the external network. However...I've been running into roadblocks (AKA it isn't working). I've tried assigning static IP's to the VM's, and setting the gateway and DNS to the production IP's, but that doesn't work. Possibly because I used private IP's (192.168.1.xxx)? Any suggestions?