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Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Charbel Nemnom, Patrick Lownds, Leandro Carvalho
Book Image

Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Charbel Nemnom, Patrick Lownds, Leandro Carvalho

Overview of this book

Hyper-V 2016 is full of new features and updates. The second of our best-selling Hyper-V books, the Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook has it all covered. Brimming with expert solutions and techniques, you?ll have everything you need to master virtualization and Hyper-V Manager. This Hyper-V book is designed to help advanced-level administrators benefit fully from the new Windows Server. With over 80 hands-on recipes, the Hyper-V Cookbook gives you tips, tricks and best practices to deploy, maintain and upgrade your virtual machines.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook - Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Using advanced virtual machine network settings


Creating and adding a virtual switch to a virtual machine is not the end of the story in Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V. Many of the features and settings were introduced in Windows 2012 R2 version; these can be configured using the graphical interface, such as DHCP Guard, Router Guard, Port Mirroring, and other options that require PowerShell such as Port ACLs, for example.

If you think this is not enough, no problem! Hyper-V supports extensible switches, allowing you to write your own code, creating new capabilities for monitoring, forwarding, and filtering virtual switch traffic.

This recipe will cover these advanced networking features and explain how they work.

Getting ready

This recipe shows the advanced options of a virtual switch, but note that it doesn't show how to create one. Use the previous recipe to create a virtual switch before you start the next steps.

How to do it…

The following steps will demonstrate all the advanced virtual switch...