Users Guide

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4 Go to Network Connection → Hyper-V PP NIC #1 properties → IP v4
properties
→ IP settings → Advanced → IP Settings. Set the metric for
Hyper-V PP NIC #1 to 9999 .
This setting ensures that the parent partition traffic does not prefer the
new Hyper-V virtual network adapter to the dedicated physical parent
network adapter. A value of
9999 assigns the virtual network adapter the
highest user-assignable link cost.
5 In the Advanced TCP/IP dialog box for the Hyper-V PP NIC #1 network
adapter, select the
DNS tab, unselect Register this connection's addresses
in DNS
.
This prevents the system from registering the connection in DNS. Only
the
PP Mgmt NIC #1 NIC is allowed to register in DNS to further
prevent this network adapter from handling any traffic besides virtual
machine traffic.
6 Click the WINS tab in the Advanced TCP/IP Settings window. Select
Disable NetBIOS over TCP/IP , and unselect Enable LMHOSTS lookup .
7 Disable any unused network adapters.
External Virtual Network
The following steps are best practice recommendations for configuring the
external virtual network configurations within Hyper-V. These steps assume
you have already performed the general installation and naming steps
mentioned in the previous sections.
The following steps modify the default configuration of the Windows Server
2008 parent partition network settings. These steps are needed due to the
additional virtual network adapter added to the parent partition when the
external virtual network is implemented. These changes include:
• Renaming a parent partition virtual network adapter.
• Disabling network adapter power management.
• Modifying the adapter binding order so that the dedicated parent partition
physical network adapter is preferred.