Using NIC Teaming and a virtual switch for Windows Server 2012 host networking and Hyper-V.

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Using NIC Teaming and a virtual switch for Windows Server 2012 host networking!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mOuoIWzmdE
Hi thanks for reading. Now I may well have my terminology incorrect here so I will try to explain  as best I can and apologies from the start.
It’s a bit of both Hyper-v and Server 2012R2. 
I am setting up a lab with Server 2012 R2. I have several physical network cards that I have teamed called “HostSwitchTeam” from those I have made several Virtual Network Adaptors such as below
examples.
New-VMSwitch "MgmtSwitch" -MinimumBandwidthMode weight -NetAdaptername "HostSwitchTeam" -AllowManagement $false
Add-VMNetworkAdapter -ManagementOS -Name "Vswitch" -SwitchName "MgmtSwitch"
Add-VMNetworkAdapter -ManagementOS -Name "Cluster" -SwitchName "MgmtSwitch"
When I install Hyper-V and it comes to adding a virtual switch during installation it only shows the individual physical network cards and the
HostSwitchTeam for selection.  When installed it shows the Microsoft Network Multiplexor Driver as the only option. 
Is this correct or how does one use the Vswitch made above and incorporate into the Hyper-V so a weight can be put against it.
Still trying to get my head around Vswitches,VMNetworkadapters etc so somewhat confused as to the way forward at this time so I may have missed the plot altogether!
Any help would be much appreciated.
Paul
Paul Edwards

Answer 1

Hi P.J.E,
>>I have teams so a bit confused as to the adapter bindings and if the teams need to be added or just the vEthernet Nics?.
Nic 1,2 
HostVMSwitchTeam
Nic 3,4,5
         HostMgmtSwitchTeam
>>The adapter Binding settings are:
HostMgmtSwitchTeam
V-Curric
Nic 3
Nic 4
Nic 5
V-Livemigration
HostVMSwitch
Nic 1
Nic 2
V-iSCSI
V-HeartBeat
Based on my understanding of the description , "HostMgmtSwitchTeam and
HostVMSwitch " are teamed NIC .
You can think of them as two physical NICs (do not use NIC 1,2,3,4,5 any more , there are just two NICs "HostMgmtSwitchTeam and
HostVMSwitch").
V-Curric,
V-Livemigration , V-iSCSI ,
V-HeartBeat are just VNICs of host  (you can change their name then check if the virtual switch name will be changed )
Best Regards
Elton Ji
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