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Leveraging Hyper-V to Add VLANs in Windows 11

Posted April 13, 2024

By Kevin Schwickrath1 min read

As mentioned in my last post, I recently upgraded one of my Windows 10 machines to Windows 11. In the process, I discovered that Intel is no longer supporting Intel PROSet beyond Windows 10.

Unfortunately, I used PROSet to configure VLANs to access my lab environment.

It never occurred to me to use Hyper-V until I stumbled on this post. Check the sources below for a link to Alexander Täffner’s post. He did a good walkthrough on setting up Hyper-V if you need it.

Terminal window
# List your network adapters and note the "Name"
Get-NetAdapter


# Create a new vSwitch bridging the physical NIC "Ethernet"
New-VMSwitch -name VLAN-vSwitch -NetAdapterName Ethernet -AllowManagementOS $true


# Create a new virtual Host-NIC and assign a VLAN to it
Add-VMNetworkAdapter -ManagementOS -Name "LabLAN" -SwitchName "VLAN-vSwitch" -Passthru | Set-VMNetworkAdapterVlan -Access -VlanId 99


# Add as many virtual NICs as you need
Add-VMNetworkAdapter -ManagementOS -Name "VLAN1024" -SwitchName "VLAN-vSwitch" -Passthru | Set-VMNetworkAdapterVlan -Access -VlanId 1024


# Double check everything is configured
Get-NetAdapter

Sources

Enjoy!

WindowsIntelHyper-V

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