Brien answers some common questions related to Hyper-V's SET capability, from how to configure virtual machines to use SET to determining your load balancing algorithm.

Microsoft's new extensible virtual switch in Hyper-V 3.0 for Windows Server 8 has already been implemented by 5nine, Broadcom, Cisco, inMon and NEC, among others.

What is a Virtual Switch in Hyper-V? Hyper-V Virtual Switch is available in Hyper-V Manager when you install the Hyper-V server role on a compatible computer.

Hyper-V usually makes it easy to configure virtual network adapters within VMs. That is, until you need to create a VM containing multiple virtual NICs.

Instead of going to the New Virtual Network Switch tab, select the switch you want to configure and do the needful. 4] Restart services related to Hyper-V ...

Cisco is collaborating with Microsoft to bring its virtual switch to Hyper-V next year when Windows Server 8 is released. While Cisco’s Nexus 1000V distributed virtual switch already supports ...