Hyper-V Virtual Switch Mastery: A Comprehensive GUI Guide

Hyper-V Virtual Switch is a Layer 2 Ethernet switch in Hyper-V Manager, enabling programmatically managed and scalable connections between virtual machines and physical networks.

a) How do I configure or create a Hyper-V virtual switch using a GUI ?

1. First, select Virtual Switch Manager from the Actions pane of the Hyper-V Management Console.

2. Then, select the New Virtual Network Switch option from the left menu.

3. After that, select the desired type and click on the “Create Virtual Switch” button.

4. Next, provide a descriptive name for this virtual switch connection.

5. When selecting the external switch type, it is necessary to choose the physical network interface card from the host that the external network will be bound to.

6. After that, you may select the option to allow SR-IOV if your physical NIC supports it.

7. Then, the VLAN tagging option can be enabled, and the VLAN number to which the virtual switch should be bound is specified.

8. Finally, click Apply and accept the pop-up warning about potential network communications loss during reconfiguration of the NIC and virtual switch creation.