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Copper Contributor

Oct 06, 2023

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Evaluating Server 2022 interconnecting Hyper-V machines on different Windows 11 Pro Machines

Dear community, I've installed two Hyper-V Servers each on five machines. They are all connected to the Internet through their host. Connectivity to their neighbouring hosts is not possible, let ...

Hyper-V

networking

windows server

Dave Patrick
Oct 06, 2023
You'll want to create an external vSwitch then plug the physical adapters into a common switch. When you create a new external vSwitch the internet protocols are removed from the adapter and the Hyper-V Extensible Switch protocol is added turning that physical port into a multi-port virtual switch. Connect your VMs to this vSwitch and use each VM's vEthernet to configure the addressing in the exact same manner as if it were a physical NIC

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/jhoward/2008/06/17/hyper-v-what-are-the-uses-for-different-types-of-virtual-networks/

Dave Patrick

MVP

Oct 07, 2023

Bjarne_Petersen just checking if there's any progress or updates? please don't forget to mark helpful replies.

Bjarne_Petersen

Copper Contributor

Oct 10, 2023

The situation as of now is:
The vSwitch works!
Connectivity is good. Hosts systems communicate with eachother. Hosts communicate with vMachines. vMachines communicate with vMachines.

Dave Patrick
MVP
Oct 10, 2023
Glad to hear, thanks for coming back to let us know.