Basic Hyper-V Networking

Networking is a huge subject in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. We are going to start with the basics, moving through some new features that can be difficult to understand at first, and building your knowledge up in layers, before you go on to the more-complex topics in Chapter 5, “Cloud Computing,” Chapter 7, “Using File Servers,” and Chapter 8, “Building Hyper-V Clusters.” We recommend that you read through each subject, even if you are experienced in networking or Hyper-V. At the very least, this will serve as a refresher, but you might find that you learn something that will be important to later topics.

In this section, you will look at the basics of Hyper-V networking that are required to connect your virtual machines ...

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