Can someone help me understand how to add an external Virtual Switch?
I have a single server domain using Server 2012 R2 and the server is already configured with dual NICs, teamed using Aggregation. I just added Hyper-V, but when I add an external Virtual Switch using the already-teamed NIC (withAllow management OS to share this network adapter checked), the host server loses LAN connectivity. When I remove the new Virtual Switch, connectivity is restored. Evidently, there's an incompatibility that I'm not understanding.
I'm wondering if the problem is that my dual NICs were teamed prior to adding Hyper-V and the Virtual Switch?
Perhaps I need to un-Team the dual NICs and then configure Teaming from w/in the Hyper-V Manager wizard?
Note: I don't want 1 NIC dedicated to the host and the 2nd NIC dedicated to VMs. I prefer having the 2 physical NICs teamed for aggregation and then shared between the host and the VMs. Unless that won't work?