I have a Dell Poweredge R310 that has Server 2008 R2 installed with Hyper-v. the network card is part of the system board, and has two ports. Only one port is connected to the network, and the other port is disabled in Windows. I don't have an extra network jack to conncet the other port to.
I have installed a Server 2008 R2 guest OS, and now I get intermittent network connectivity on both the host and the guest. Basically either the guest will have a good network connection, but the host will be limited, or the host will have a good connection and the guest will say unidentified network. The guest has a static IP address.
When I installed Hyper-v, I assigned the virtual network to the network port that is connected to the network. I have been reading some of the best practices, and it says that two nics should be used. Since I cannot connect the second network port to the network, is there a way to configure this so it works better. Not I have another Dell server with two network ports, with only one connected to the network and the network works fine on the host and guest. Thanks.