Configuring Hyper-V networking

You completed the first step of the configuration of Hyper-V networking when you installed the Hyper-V server role. You would have chosen the network interface that was used to create a virtual switch, through which a virtual machine communicates with the outside world.

Configuring Hyper-V virtual switches

Hyper-V supports three types of virtual switches: External, Internal, and Private:

• External virtual switches enable virtual machines to connect to a physical network, and if the physical network has internet accessibility, the VM can connect to the internet as well. Therefore, you would use external virtual switch in a production environment, to make virtual machines and their services available...