VLAN trunking on Hyper-V from SCVMM 2012 R2

hi All,
I have a multiple Hyper-V host, each hyper-V host have 2 physical NIC, 1 Physical NIC connected to Management Network, and the other 1 Physical NIC connected to Production LAN.
We have 5 VLAN ID in Production LAN,
based on my experience we can set VLANID's on Network Adapter in VM level, and also we can set VLAINID's on Virtual Switch but only for single VLAN not multiple VLAN.
The question are as following:
1. Can we set Trunk on Virtual Switch from SCVMM 2012 R2 console? On this article http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh848475.aspx, we can set Trunk for VM by using Set-VMNetworkAdapterVlan, not for virtual switch.
2. In SCVMM, we can create Logical Network put the VLAN and subnet, create Logical Switch, port profile, port classification, and associate the Logical Switch to Logical Network. Then we need to add the Logical Network to Hyper-V host. is it means
that the logical switch become Trunk mode?
Regards,
Endrik
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Hi Lopez,
Ya, just create vswitch without vlanid, then add vlan id on VM network adapter, and config the switch port behind the server. It's just work.
thanks
Endrik
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