Hyper-V R2 and Management NICs

Robert Larson posted a note for people to be aware of if testing Hyper-V R2 out on lab machines.  Your machine may only have one NIC which is contrary to MS’s recommendations:

  • 1 NIC for the parent partition
  • 1 NIC for virtual machine networking
  • 1 NIC for heartbeat (if using clustered hosts)

The default configuration for Hyper-V R2 is that the NIC assigned to the parent partition cannot be used by virtual networks, i.e. child partitions.  There is a tick box in the virtual network configuration that you can use to allow the NIC to be shared by the parent and child partitions.  Robert has posted a screenshot.

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