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IP assignment
Maybe I'm missing something here but I can only find passing comments
on this with no good descriptions.
I have a 2008 Std install with Hyper-V role. The server has 4
physical NIC ports.
I have one NIC devoted to the server
The first virtual machine (2008) is using the second NIC
The second virtual machine (2003) is using the other 2 NIC ports (the
app requires 2)
In Virtual Network Manager I have created 3 External virtual networks
and then added the adapters to the VM settings (1 for each port).
Everything is communicating fine but it looks like I am required to
supply an IP address to the physical NIC on the host system as well as
the virtual NIC in the VM. We can afford the IPs but it adds to
confusion and makes the host multihomed - this has several issues in
the MS world. It's also a little unclear how the apps will respond to
this method.
It looks like I could add the NIC in the VM as a legacy adapter to
solve this but that is documented as slower performance as well as
locking you to 100MB.
Am I understanding all of this correctly?
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