Wednesday, February 25, 2009 12:51 AM
alejanp
Using VMM to manage you Hyper-V NIC teams created with BACS
Using BACS version 11.6.10 you can create NIC teams in you Hyper-V Server to ensure Virtual Machines connectivity and manage your BASP NICs from Virtual Machine Manager. Just follow these easy steps
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Remove any existing External Virtual Networks connected to the NICs that are part of the team
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Use BACS to create your team, configure the desired team Type, add the NICs involved in the team and add the VLANs you want
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Refresh the Host in VMM. Now you should see your BASP Virtual Adapters in the hardware of your host like this:
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Once these adapters show up in your Host in VMM you can create one external Virtual Network for each Virtual BASP Network Adapter
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Do not configure any VLANs on these Virtual Networks since the BACS software is in charge of this
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When selecting the BASP Virtual Adapter, you must check in the BACS software the Name of the BASP adapter to select the correct one in VMM:
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Connect a VM to the desired Virtual Network adapter.
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Now your VM is connected to a VN that provides the Failover and High availability provided by BACS
Note that this is a result of some tests I did on my machines and is not ensured to work in all environments and not officially supported by VMM or Hyper-V
