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DanHuber
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May 19, 2020

Can I reconfigure spare physical ethernet ports on a Hyper-V server als standard switch ports?

I do have a Hyper-V server in a remote datacenter with a few spare physical ethernet ports. I do not have a a local hardware switch (which I'd prefer), but I need to connect an additional NAS to the network.

 

In Linux, I would just configure OpenVSwitch to assign the spare ethernet interfaces the role of a switch port in the network.

 

Is something like this actually possible with Hyper-V Virtual Switches as well?

If yes, how would I configure this?

 

Thanks

Daniel

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