classifications. You will use the built-in objects for those, but they are easy to create, if
required, using the Fabric workspace and the Port Profiles and Port Classifications
navigation areas. I recommend looking at the existing virtual port profiles and port
classifications as the foundation of configuration should you need to create your own.
Now is a good time to take a look at the inbox port profiles and port classifications,
which you can choose to keep, delete, or even modify to meet your own needs exactly.
The first step is to create the uplink port profiles. Remember, the uplink port profile
models the connectivity available for a specific connection from the host; that is, from
the network adapter to the switch. If different network adapters have different
connectivity to different switches, you will need multiple uplink port profiles. Here are
the steps:
1 . Open Virtual Machine Manager.
2 . Open the Fabric workspace.
3 . Select the Networking ➣ Port Profiles navigation node.
4 . Click the Create button drop-down, and select Hyper-V Port Profile.
5 . Enter a name and description for the new port profile, as shown in Figure 3.24.
Select the Uplink Port Profile radio button. You can additionally configure a
teaming mode, which is used if the port profile is used on a host where NIC
Teaming is required and the settings configured in the port profile will be applied.
Because I am connecting all my Hyper-V boxes to ports configured on the switch
with multiple VLANs allowed, I need only one uplink port profile that can connect
any of the networks. Click Next.
6 . Select the network sites (which are part of your logical networks) that can be
connected to via this uplink port profile (see Figure 3.25). Because all of my
networks can, I select them all, as well as the check box to enable Hyper-V
Network Virtualization. On Windows 2012 Hyper-V hosts, this option enables
Network Virtualization in the networking stack on the network adapter, but it does
nothing on Windows Server 2012 R2 and above hosts, which always have Network
Virtualization enabled because they’re part of the switch. Click Next.
7 . Click Finish to complete the creation of the uplink port profile.