1. How many NICs you use depends on the load and bandwidth requirements of your VMs. Use one NIC for managing the host and one or more for the virtual network connections (aggregated or dedicated to specific VMs).
2. I would enable static addresses for all, or at least DHCP reservations. 3. You can only have one default gateway. You have to configure the routing for the rest of the NICs with the "route" command line. From: Jay Dale [mailto:jd...@unetek.com] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 09:14 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Hyper-V NIC utilization Hey all, I am setting up a new Hyper-V server for a company where I am P2V'ing 3 of their physical servers. Currently I want to just set up one virtual network, and if they add servers down the road I will add another. The physical host machine comes with 4 NIC's. My questions are these: 1. Should I utilize all 4 NIC's on one virtual network, or use only 1 or 2 of them and leave the rest disconnected? 2. I'm attaching the host to their domain, should I have all the NIC's utilize static IP's or just one static with one IP and let the rest have DHCP addresses? 3. When I attempt to configure 2 NIC's with static IP's, I get the "multiple gateways" message - is that a bad thing or disregard it? Thanks for any advice you can pass on! Jay Jay Dale Senior Systems Administrator Unetek, Inc. Mobile: 832.373.7883 Email:jd...@unetek.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and/or privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this e-mail and attachments, if any, or the information contained herein, is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
