Before creating and configuring a virtual switch in your computer, your computer must have the Hyper-V program installed on the computer and have administrative rights. There are three types of ...

Cisco today said it would offer its virtual switch users technology to get around VMware’s recent elimination of support for third party virtual switches such as Cisco’s Nexus 1000V. VMware in March ...

Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator (VEPA) moves switching out of the server back to the physical network and makes all virtual machine traffic visible to the external network switch, freeing up server ...

If you receive a prompt with the message Error applying Virtual Switch Properties changes when you try to re-create a Hyper-V virtual switch (vSwitch) for the same ...

Switch Embedded Teaming (SET) is a feature introduced in Windows Server 2016 as an alternative to NIC teaming. It allows up to eight identical physical network adapters to be combined into a Hyper-V ...

In most cases, Hyper-V makes it really easy to configure virtual network adapters within virtual machines (VMs). For simple VMs, setting up and managing virtual NICs isn't a big deal. However, things ...

There's more virtualization than ever before being installed in data centers. Each host server runs a hypervisor that includes a virtual switch — a piece of software that manages networked data flows ...

One of the biggest challenges associated with virtualization is managing all the interconnections between various virtual machines. To solve this issue, IT organizations typically deploy virtual ...

Cisco has introduced a virtual network switch for VMware clusters, a product of a new collaborative partnership between Cisco and virtualization company VMware. The new virtual data center switch, the ...

The industry reached a “virtual” tipping point in 2009 when, according to IDC, the number of newly installed virtual machines surpassed the number of newly installed physical servers. This inflection ...