Creating Hyper-V virtual switch with powershell selection

Introduction

Creating virtual switch each time for your lab, might be frustrating. The above will give you some minor steps that you could do to increase the productivity of creation on your end. What you can do is to use windows powershell to create those switch as you want.

How
In the next article, I will share more on the combination script to use for VM creation as well. Now we will just be focusing on switch creation.


#To clear the screen
clear-host
#To get the current network adapter

get-netadapter
#Base on the current network adapter, you should select the interface that you would like to use for the switch creation

$interface = read-host "Please enter your interface for public switch: "
$ethernet = Get-NetAdapter -Name $interface
$switchname = read-host "Please enter your switchname : "
$switchtype = read-host "Please enter your switch type (internal, private or public) : "
if ($switchtype -like 'internal')
{
New-VMSwitch -name $switchname -SwitchType internal
}
elseif ($switchtype -like 'private')
{
New-VMSwitch -name $switchname -SwitchType private
}
elseif ($switchtype -like 'public')
{
New-VMSwitch -Name $switchname -NetAdapterName $ethernet.name
}
else
{
write-host""
write-host "You have input an invalid switchtype" -ForegroundColor Yellow
}

Summary

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