Installation Guide

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V2110 Virtual Appliance Installation Guide

Configuring Virtual Switches

for the Virtual Appliance

The Virtual Appliance has some specific requirements on the virtual switches to which its

data plane ports (PhysAdapter1 and PhysAdapter2) are connected. This chapter explains

how to create a virtual switch on a Hyper-V host that satisfies these requirements.

This chapter does not replace the MS Hyper-V documentation. The procedures described in

this appendix assume that you have already gained access to the Hyper-V Manager using

credentials that grant full administrative access to the host server.

Creating a New Virtual Switch on the Host Server

This is an optional step since it is possible to reconfigure the virtual switch created by

default when Hyper-V is installed to support VLANs or another acceptable custom virtual

switch might be configured on the host. However, using separate virtual switches for the

data plane traffic helps to isolate that traffic from other virtual devices and permits the

switch to be configured specifically to meet the needs of the V2110.

To create the new switch:

1 Run the Hyper-V Manager.

2 On the Hyper-V Manager dialog, under Actions, click Virtual Switch Manager.

NOTE

Alternatively, it is also possible to define more than one network on a single virtual

switch. All networks on the same virtual switch share the NICs assigned to the

virtual switch.