applied to the Hyper-V hosts. The logical switch will bring all of the components
together. Follow these steps:
1 . Open Virtual Machine Manager.
2 . Open the Fabric workspace.
3 . Select the Networking ➣ Logical Switches navigation node.
4 . Click the Create Logical Switch button.
5 . The Create Logical Switch Wizard launches. Read all of the text on the introduction
page. It confirms all of the tasks that you should have already performed, such as
creating the logical networks, installing extensions, and creating uplink port
profiles (aka native port profiles). Click Next.
6 . Enter a name and description for the new logical switch. Also note that you can
select the uplink mode, which relates to the use of teaming, as shown in Figure
3.26. Prior to Windows Server 2016, a VM Switch was attached to a single NIC or a
NIC team that comprised multiple network adapters. Windows Server 2016
introduces Switch Embedded Teaming (SET) which, as the name suggests, teams
multiple adapters directly in the VM Switch instead of creating a separate NIC
team by using the Load Balancing and Failover (LBFO) functionality. SET has the
benefit of enabling mixed use of adapters with the VM Switch and utilizing RDMA,
which I cover later in this chapter. If you select No Uplink Team, the switch can be
bound to only a single NIC. If you select Team, LBFO NIC Teaming will be used to
create a NIC team automatically on the host for the adapters selected when
deploying the switch. If you select Embedded Team, SET is utilized with no
separate NIC team created on the host. If SCVMM detects the deployment of a
network controller (which I cover later), the option to use LBFO teaming is
removed. I recommend using embedded teaming over LBFO, as this is definitely
the future direction for teaming in Windows, and if you are using RDMA, it is a no-
brainer. Click Next.