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Ice Drake
Asked: 2021-04-01 23:25:43 +0800 CST

How to setup a VLAN switch with Hyper-V virtual external switch?

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I currently have Windows Server setup with one physical ethernet port (eth0) as an external VLAN trunk connected to a Hyper-V virtual external switch for VMs to share with the host. The host uses specifically VLAN1 while the virtual switch allows VMs to use and share from VLAN1 to VLAN3.

Now I want to connect another physical ethernet port (eth1) to the same virtual switch or something similar so I can connect an external network device to it (eth1) and have the communication be able to pass through the other physical external VLAN trunk (eth0).

Typically, it would be a much easier task to do if it was on a router configuration, but I can't figure how I go about doing the same thing on Windows. The configuration for network adapters in the current network setup confused me, let alone the new network configuration.

networking vlan hyper-v windows-server-2016 vswitch

1 Answers

  1. If you need routing on Windows Server, you can install RRAS. Using Powershell,

    Install-WindowsFeature RemoteAccess

    (reboot is needed)

    If you need the Admin Tool for it (on the same server or somewhere else):

    Install-WindowsFeature RSAT-RemoteAccess-PowerShell

    The routing component:

    Install-WindowsFeature Routing

    Then from Server Manager's tools, you can start Routing and remote access and configure the server for LAN routing.

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