Quick Tip: Pinging Provider Address in Hyper-V Network Virtualization

Article, Hyper-V, Microsoft, Network, Network Virtualization, Software, System Center, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Virtualization, Windows, Windows Servers 2012 R2 1 Minute

If you are familiar with Hyper-V Network Virtualization you know that there is the concept of Provider Addresses and they are kind of different than the normal addresses assigned for physical or virtual network adapters. In some troubleshooting scenarios you may want to ping the provider addresses between the hosts. If you try with just “ping” that will not work the right syntax is ping –p <provider_address>.

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Keep in mind that this command is available only on Windows Server 2012 R2.

I hope this is helpful.

Published by Stanislav Zhelyazkov

Stanislav Zhelyazkov has been working in IT since 2007. Stanislav has started his IT career as a Help Desk Specialist in 2007 while studying Informatics in the University of Ruse. He also worked in HP Enterprise Services (now known as DXC), maintaining large corporate IT infrastructures for clients in Holland, Switzerland and Germany and was involved in a Private Cloud project based on MS Hyper-V and System Center. He was also in the role of Principal Consultant in Lumagate developing and consulting companies on Azure, OMS, management and Private clouds. Currently he is Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Sentia Denmark. Stanislav is active community member at MSDN forums providing answers on Azure. His blogposts can be found at www.cloudadministrator.net or www.systemcentercentral.com.

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