Rate One of the great things about the Hyper-V virtual switch is that it can be used to very effectively isolate your virtual machines from the physical network. This grants...

RateSo far, this series has spent most of its time focused on the methods that systems use to decide where traffic should go and how it should get there. A...

Rate In many ways, this particular post won’t have a great deal to do with Hyper-V itself. It will earn its place in this series by helping to clear up...

Rate In part 3, I showed you a diagram of a couple of switches that were connected together using a single port. I mentioned then that I would likely use...

Rate In the previous post, we dug into VLANs, which are a layer 2 concept in the ISO model. In this piece, we’re going to step up into layer 3...

Rate In the first part of this series, we started with the foundational concepts of networking in the OSI model and took a brief look at where Hyper-V components live...

Rate After storage, Hyper-V’s next most confusing subject is networking. There are a dizzying array of choices and possibilities. To make matters worse, many administrators don’t actually understand that much...

Rate Hyper-V Network Virtualization technology, sometimes referred as HNV, is primarily designed to be used by the hosting providers, but every SMB should know the benefits offered by HNV.

Rate Ever wonder why your virtual machines report that their network speed is 10 Gbps, even if you haven’t got a 10 Gbps adapter in the physical box? If so,...

RateNetwork adapter teaming is not a new concept by any means, but the introduction of native teaming in the Windows Server 2012 product marks the first time that Microsoft has...