Sniffing vSwitch traffic from a Hyper-V host

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Hello,I have a Hyper-V setup with twenty Windows VMs. I would like to monitor all the network traffic between these VMs. Is there a way to sniff the vSwitch traffic? Something like mirroring this vSwitch to a physical port on the host to which I can plug a packet sniffer or a laptop with wireshark to see all the VM traffic. All that I could find so far is mirroring the traffic from all the VMs to another VM, or mirroring the traffic from a physical port to a VM. However, I'm trying to mirror traffic from all VMs to a physical port.Thanks in advance!

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