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Topology and object creation

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Topology and object creation

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- [Instructor] Software-defined networking has a lot of different objects that we're going to need to create and configure. Let's take another look at the way our lab is going to be set up, and sort of a general overview. As we see in this graphic, on the left we have VMHost1 and on the right we have VMHost2. Underneath each server we have the two different virtual machines and the VLAN and subnets they're going to be on once we create them. The advantage to software-defined networking is that, prior to this, we would have to have all of the virtual machines on the same subnet. But, with the advent of Server 2012, R2, and 2016, we now have the ability to have the virtual machines on different subnets, and we can take those subnets, and we can make it so they can communicate with each other, or not, if we choose to. We can make it so the virtual machines can go out to the Internet, or not go out to the Internet, or have virtual machines talk to each other, or have specific hosts be…

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