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Hypervisor networking is where most virtual infrastructure still breaks-silently, unpredictably, and often expensively. Despite faster hardware and more advanced hypervisors, misconfigured virtual switches, hidden routing paths, weak segmentation, and unvalidated performance tuning continue to cause outages in 2025 and beyond. This book exists to fix that problem-properly. Hypervisor Networking Explained is a practical, lab-first guide to designing, operating, securing, and validating virtual networks across Proxmox, XCP-ng, and Hyper-V. It does not rely on theory alone, vendor marketing abstractions, or ""click-through"" walkthroughs. Instead, it teaches you how packets actually move, where they break, and how to build networks that remain observable, secure, and predictable under load and failure. You will start by building a correct mental model of virtual NICs, bridges, vSwitches, VLANs, uplinks, and routing boundaries. From there, you will implement real-world designs: trunked uplinks, VLAN-backed networks, resilient NIC bonding, MTU-safe performance tuning, and host-level firewalls with true micro-segmentation. Every concept is reinforced with hands-on practice labs, validation steps, and rollback plans-because correctness is only proven when it survives failure. This book goes beyond configuration. You will learn why hypervisors must switch-not route, how to enforce zero-trust boundaries inside the host, and how to validate isolation, throughput, latency, and failover with measurable acceptance tests. You will also build an end-to-end, production-style multi-hypervisor network spanning management, storage, application, and DMZ zones-complete with routing, security policy, observability hooks, and recovery workflows. Unlike most virtualization books, this guide treats observability and validation as first-class requirements. You will learn which metrics actually matter, where to capture traffic safely, how to detect silent performance loss, and how to troubleshoot networking failures deterministically instead of guessing. Field-ready appendices provide copy/paste cheat sheets, reference architectures, troubleshooting playbooks, acceptance test templates, and a forward-looking roadmap into EVPN/VXLAN, advanced performance, and security maturity. This book is written for: Homelab builders who want production-grade networking discipline SMB operators who need reliability without enterprise bloat Infrastructure and virtualization engineers responsible for Proxmox, XCP-ng, or Hyper-V environments If you want a networking book that tells you what to click, this is not it. If you want a networking book that teaches you how to think, build, validate, and defend hypervisor networks in the real world, this book was written for you. Build networks with intent. Validate every packet path. Operate with confidence.

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