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Introduction

When user/admin wants to his VM to present on multiple networks, AddVMToNetwork feature will allow him to add multiple networks to the VM.

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• Add Remove Networks to VMs
• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj680093.aspx 

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Glossary

VM - Virtual Machine running on the Host

Feature Specifications

This feature is to support multiple network interfaces to guest vm's by following operations

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• • Functional

    • While deploying the VM,select multiple networks. VM will be created with multiple nics and will have configured guest Vlan's on the nic.
    • When Add network to VM, if the VM is in stopped state it should be successfull
    • when VM is restarted it should have all the networks where admin/user had added to it.
    • When Add network to VM, if the VM is in Running state, Error Message "Vm in Running state cannot be added to new network" will be shown 
    • User/Admin can add VM to  Max of 8 networks. This is because of the Number of Nic's limitation imposed by Hyper-V
    • Remove Nic from VM, if the VM is in stopped state it should be successfull
    • Remove Nic from VM, if the VM is in running  state it should be thrown an exception "Cannot remove nic when VM is in running state"

  • Negative usage scenarios

    • When user tries to Add Network to VM when VM is in running state. Error Message "Vm in Running state cannot be added to new network" will be shown.
    • When user tries to Add Network to VM when VM is in stopped state and the number of networks is more than 8, then Error Message "Maximum 8 networks will be supported"  will be shown.
    • When user tries to Remove Network/Nic from VM when VM is in running state. Error Message "Vm in Running state cannot be removed from network" will be shown.

Support-ability Characteristics

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