My new threadripper Motherboard has two of these Intel X710 10Gbase-T ports,
howe ever I cont find a way to properly use multiple VLANs with them, intel documentation reffers to some PROSET tool which seams to be part of the driver and seams not to be available on Windows 11, WTF!
The internet tells ne I could use VLANs if I would use a Hyper-V switch, ok would be workable but,
and its a big fat but,
Hyper-V does not play nice with the latest VMWare 17.5.0 Workstation I am using, when its enabled and VMWare is working through Hyper-V taking of snapshots in background is completely broken, the PC locks up with 100% CPU usage untill I kill the VMWare process (and the bevavioure is the same on my intel laptop), so no bueno.
So my questions to the experts here, is there any other way to create virtual NIC’s for VLAN usage with this NIC on windows 11?
Or do I have to waste money on some 4 port 1Gbit NIC to physically connect all my VLANs?
Depending on the system, you could just run proxmox or hyperv and run Windows 11 in a VM. However you would need a second GPU and a VFIO setup to make that work well. Then you can run other VMs natively on the hypervisor instead of using VMWare Workstation.
Another option is to just use a router for access to all your subnets. Do you need layer 2 access to them on this system?
Layer 3 would be enough but I like the ability to connect and disconnect from individual vlans by enabling/disabling NIC’s, as well as the PC being accessible from some of the VLANs without port forwarding, so a router would not be ideal.
2 GPU’s for proxmox ok one for the windows 11 the other for teh rest.
but why 2 gpu’s for hyper V can it do GPU passthrough?
Layer 3 would be enough but I like the ability to connect and disconnect from individual vlans by enabling/disabling NIC’s, as well as the PC being accessible from some of the VLANs without port forwarding, so a router would not be ideal.
I see your point. Though you wouldn’t need port forwarding (nat) to access anything, you just need routes (like a default route) on the workstation.
Yes HyperV supports GPU passthrough, though I’ve never used it myself. The second GPU is for the host, since you don’t have an iGPU.