Configuring Hyper-V networking

In the Creating a virtual machine recipe, you created a VM, VM1. This virtual machine has, by default, a single network card that Hyper-V sets to acquire IP address details from DHCP. In this recipe, you assign the NIC to a switch and configure IP address details.

Getting ready

This recipe assumes you have created VM1 as per the Creating a virtual machine recipe. The recipe also makes use of a DHCP server running on DC1. You set this DHCP server up in the Installing and authorizing a DHCP Server recipe, and configured the DHCP server in the Configure DHCP scopes recipe, in Chapter 8, Managing Windows Network Services.

How to do it...

Here you see how to configure Hyper-V networking:

1. Get NIC details and any IP Address from the VM1 VM:

      Get-VMNetworkAdapter -VMName VM1

2. Get VM networking details:

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