This is the first time in some time I'm building a Hyper-V server from the ground up.. a few questions on the network side of things here..
I have teaming setup for the physical nics on this server.. I have basically 8 1GBit ports available on the server.. i've teamed up 2 at a time, giving me 4 Teams
Team1: TeamManagement (static ip)
Team2: TeamHV#1 (dhcp)
Team3: TeamHV#2 (dhcp)
Team4: TeamHV-EDGE (dhcp)
At this point i have a static ip for the management team.. but no static ip's for the other teams (which will be hyperv virtual switches) and i believe this is how i've done this in the past (dhcp basically)..
I then created 3 virtual switches that are associated with each "team" member with a similar name.
Is there any need to set those other 3 teams that will become virtual network switches to static ips before creating the virtual network switches for the VM's?
I do notice that if i ping the host server, it doesnt respond on the main static ip, but one of the dhcp ones..(3 dns entries) I do have allow management operating system to share this network adapter set on all 3 Virtual Switches.
I looked on our other Hyper-V server and i noticed that the hyper-v virtual adapters created, you cant view the status and see that its a dhcp provided ip address, but this new box (same OS), you can see the status on the adapters and it shows the dhcp address... not sure why (they are set to "disabled" on the old hyper-v box but enabled on this new one with the same settings somehow)
***EDIT: I see if i uncheck Allow management operating system to share on all 3 virtual switches, that the microsoft hyper-v adapters actually get removed from network connections and i can ping off the single main static ip address (i'm still not clear why on the old box i had these boxes checked but yet the hyper-v virtual adapters became disabled and there werent multiple ip addresses on that machine, and here i have to uncheck the option, maybe team related?)
On the other side of things, i've always just defaulted to setting the virtual switches to External for internet access.. we really dont have a DMZ in our environment.. everything flows through a sonicwall gateway.
However, as of now, I have one of the teams setup to be in a future DMZ zone off a port on the sonicwall, mainly for a Skype for Business Edge service.
Any reason to avoid using the external setting on a virtual switch at this point, given our environment?
Thanks in advance
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