Setting up Port Mirroring to Capture Mirrored Traffic on a Hyper-V Virtual Machine

Hi folks Gopal here again from the Microsoft Networking Escalation team. The article below provides steps on how a Hyper-V virtual machine running on Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 can be used to capture mirrored traffic that is hitting the Hyper-V host. Port mirroring also called as SPAN is a method used to monitor network traffic. With port mirroring enabled or a switch port spanned, the switch sends a copy of all the packets hitting one specific port or a VLAN to another port -- where the packet...(read more)