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INSA 312
Basic Networks Systems Administration
Module 2

By Alhanouf Alsenan
Roaa Aldoweesh
Chapter2:

Creating and Configuring Virtual Machine Networks

Lesson 1: Creating and Using Hyper-V Virtual Switches

Lesson 2: Advanced Hyper-V Networking Features
Lesson 3: Configuring and Using Hyper-V Network Virtualization
 Networking basics

• Servers
Computers dedicated to managing shared resources.
• Switches
Controls traffic within a network.
• Routers
Controls traffic between networks.
• Firewall
Screen incoming and outgoing traffic for anomalies and potential threats.

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 Network Virtualization

Network virtualization
• Multiple virtual networks on a same physical network Each virtual network is isolated from others

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 Virtual Networking

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 Virtual Networking

➢ Virtual networking enables communication between multiple computers, virtual machines (VMs), virtual
servers, or other devices across different office and data center locations.

➢ A virtual network connects virtual machines and devices no matter their location, using software.

A virtual switch
( vSwitch )

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 Virtual Switches

A virtual switch ( vSwitch ) is a software application that controls and directs communication between virtual
machines.

▪ Communication between physical network and virtual parts of the network

▪ A virtual network adapter is a program (instead of a physical network adapter) that allows a computer to connect
to a network

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 Switch
• Virtual

Switch
• physical

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 Types of Virtual Switches

External:
The External virtual switch is connected to a physical network adapter that is installed in the Hyper-V hosts
which makes this communication outside the host possible.

Internal:
The Internal Virtual Switch only allows communication between virtual adapters connected to connected
VMs and the management operating system.

Private:
The virtual switch that only allows communications between the connected virtual machines that are
connected to the private virtual switch.

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 Virtual Switches

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 Advantages of Virtual Networking

o Virtual networking delivers a variety of business benefits:

1. Lowering capital expenditures
2. Lowering Maintenance costs to easily segmenting networks
3. Flexible virtual machine placement
4. Multitenant network isolation without VLANs
5. IP address reuse

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 Summary

• Networking is a critical part of creating a virtual machine infrastructure.

• A switch has a series of ports, each of which is connected to a computer’s network

interface adapter. Any computer connected to the switch can transmit data to any
other computer connected to the same switch.

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