Assign management ip address with SCVMM 2012 R2 for hyper-v converged network?

Question

Hi,
I am setting up a converged network for our Hyper-V clusters using vNICs for the different network traffic including management, live migration, cluster-csv, hyper-v etc.
Problem is, how do I assign the hyper-v hosts a management IP address? They need a network connection on the management network for scvmm to manage them in the first place. How do I take the existing management IP address that is directly assigned to the
host and transfer it directly to the new vNIC so scvmm has management of it? Kind of in a chicken and egg situation here. I thought about assigning a temp ip address to the host initially but am worried that assigning the address will cause problems as then
the host would then have 2 default gateways configured. How have others managed this scenario?
Thanks
Microsoft Partner

Answer 1

Rule of thumb: Use one connected network for your Fabric networks (read the whitepaper), and use VLAN based networks for your tenant VMs when you want to associate VM Networks with each VLAN.
-kn
Kristian (Virtualization and some coffee: http://kristiannese.blogspot.com )
We don't have tenants as such due to this being an environment on a private company LAN for sole use of the company virtual machines.
What I have so far:
I created "one connected network" for Hyper-V-Virtual-Machine traffic.
Unchecked "Allow new VM networks created on this logical switch to use network virtualization"
Checked "Create a VM network with the same name to allow vms to access this logical network directly"
This logical network has one site called UK.
Within this site I have defined all of the different VLANS for this site.
Created IP pools for each VLAN subnet range.
I hope I understand this correctly. Started reading the whitepaper from cover to cover now.
Microsoft Partner