Hyper-V v3.0 & Virtual Switching

[BoomAM]

Hi,
Is anyone here any good with Hyper-V and virtual switches?

I'm just building myself a test box and i'm trying to setup multiple VLANs, but its not actually letting me put multiple virtual switches on one physical NIC.

Is this by design? As it happens on two test rigs, one running W8 with Hyper-V and one is 2012 with Hyper-V. So its not a limitation of the host OS.

I swear i'm missing something or i'm thinking too "VMWare" as having to VLAN Tag each VM rather than just assigning them to a virtual switch just seems too....archaic.
Surely its not a case of one NIC/Team per VLAN?

Anyone got any ideas? What am i missing?

Thanks.

 

[BoomAM]

Is it your intention to put the VMs on to different VLANs? If so, you set the VLAN on the synthetic network adapter on the VM itself;....
Hopefully I haven't misunderstood what you're doing and that the above is actually useful to you!

Thank you for the reply.
Sort of, i'm aware of how to do what you say, but setting it per VM seems very archaic compared to how VMware does it.
I can sort of see the purpose of having it like that for large clusters, as then it carries VM network properties between migrations/hosts, but it still seems odd to me compared to what i'm used too with vmware.

 

[BoomAM]

Been reading around technet, and yes your right, VMM is needed to do what i would consider "normal" virtualisation management.