Identify virtual NICs in Hyper-V virtual machines – 4sysops
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/23
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There are three simple steps to follow to make your VM’s NICs easy to identify. Here is an overview, before we discuss each step in more detail.
- Turn on Device Naming for the NIC, which enables seeing the name of the NIC inside the VM. This only works for supported operating systems. I hope that in the future all the operating systems supported by Hyper-V will support this, and the setting will be turned on by default. But for now, at least, this feature works on all the supported editions of Windows (both Client and Server).
- On the Hyper-V host, change the name each of the VM’s NICs to a more relevant name.
- In the VM, I will rename the NICs from “Ethernet x” to the name I assigned in the previous step. It is easier than it sounds, and it will be clearer once we work with an actual example.
–jeroen
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