How to Create Virtual Switch in Hyper–V Manager

Introduction

A virtual switch is a communication channel for virtual machines to communicate with other virtual switches and computer network adapters; the virtual switch is shading the physical machine network adapter with a virtual host.

Now here I will show how to create Virtual Switch in Hyper-V. If you want to learn how to enable Hyper-V Manager in Windows, follow this article - How to Enable Hyper-V Manager in Windows 11

Step 1. Open your Hyper-V Manager and click Virtual Switch Manager.

Step 2. Connect the virtual machine and create a virtual switch.

Now you can see three options,

1. External - It’s for Virtual machines to Virtual machines on a single physical server connectivity, and also, while you select this opinion, it allows your Virtual machine to access the internet.
2. Internal - It’s for Virtual machines to Virtual machines on the same physical device like your server operating system and client operating system in your same computer.
3. Private - It’s for establishing a network of nested Virtual machines to connect.

Here I select the External method to connect the virtual machine and click Create a virtual switch.

Step 3. Give a new name for your created switch. After that, click apply and ok.

Conclusion

In this article, you can clearly understand to create a virtual switch on Hyper-V; if you need any clarification about this article, please feel free to comment below.