Information Technology Reference
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Install the providers for any Hyper-V extensible virtual switch extensions.
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Create any required native port profiles for virtual adapters that you will use to define
port settings for the native Hyper-V virtual switch.
When you configure a VMM logical switch, you configure the following:
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Extensions
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Uplinks
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Virtual Ports
Extensions
You use logical switch extensions to configure how the logical switch interacts with network
traffic. VMM includes the following switch extensions:
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Monitoring
Allows the logical switch to monitor, but not modify, network traffic.
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Capturing
Allows the logical switch to inspect, but not modify, network traffic.
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Filtering
Allows the logical switch to modify, defragment, or block packets.
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Forwarding
Allows the logical switch to alter the destination of network traffic based
on the properties of that traffic.
In Figure 3-12, you can see that the Microsoft Windows Filtering Platform virtual switch
extension is selected by default when you create a logical switch.
FIGURE 3-12
Logical switch Extension
