Hi, we have created a farm of 6 hyper-V hosts being managed by an instance of SCVMM 2012 SP1. Our VM' are failing to connect to the physical network. We have two logical networks (VM-A and VM-B) and the VM's when booted fail to get an internet connection. The logical networks are linked to the external virtual switches on the hyper-V hosts. 

Our hyper-v hosts are running Windows Server 2008 Enterprise R2 SP1. 

In the documentation though, it says that to have VM's see external physical networks, a gateway must be added, with a pre-requisite being a gateway provider. There is very little information regarding gateway providers. Can anyone on the SCVMM team shed any further light on this requirement? Do we need a gateway to have our VM's see the outside physical network? Our goal is to use our local physical LAN to register VM's created from these hyper-V hosts on our local domain. 

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj870823.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj614618.aspx

• Edited by bostonaudi Wednesday, February 13, 2013 9:07 PM

No - you don't need a gateway in SP1 unless you are using network virtualization and requires routing (VPN).

But there are several new terms and stuff related to networking in SP1. Mostly because of converged fabric (NIC teaming, QoS) and network virtualization.

So to get things up and running, make sure you have created a VM network as well, that is linked to the logical network where the VMs should communicate. Associate these networks with the VMs and see how it goes.

Some info about converged fabric in VMM: http://kristiannese.blogspot.com

-kn

Here more information and how to configure Logical Networks on SCVMM 2012 SP1

http://www.netdavidic.com/2013/09/how-to-configure-scvmm-2012-networks.html