Switch – How to reset Dell PowerConnect 2824 switch

I found it in the manual. I need to go into the 'startup menu', I do this by hitting enter during the bootup of the switch when it says 'Hit enter or Escape'. I can then reset that password, or erase the config file on the flash.

No. What you propose defeats the purpose of VLANing. Assuming there was a way to get this working you would lose segregation as soon as it hit the physical switch.

You can do a couple of things, all of which would require various levels of reworking your network and/or ugliness.

Access Ports

First, and probably the most simple, would be to create the VLAN and then add a second Ethernet drop from the switch to the Hyper-V box as a normal access port (untagged) and then setup a separate virtual network for this traffic. You would also have to add another interface to your firewall to connect to another normal access port on the switch and route/firewall from there.

Hybrid Trunking/Access port

You would setup a Trunk to the firewall and use a sub-interface or Virtual interface on the firewall to act on the packets tagged with the VLANs. You would then have two access ports going to the Hyper-V box one for each VLAN.

You can swap this so the Trunk is going to the Hyper-V machine and the access ports to the firewall.

Trunking all around

You can setup trunks to both the firewall and the Hyper-V box and setup the Sub-interfaces on the firewall, seperate networks on the Hyper-V box based on these VLANs.