How do servers connect to the network in a virtual environment?

While possible, connecting virtual servers wirelessly to an access point is highly uncommon and inefficient for server-to-network connectivity in typical virtual environments, which use virtual network interfaces.

This describes how a *physical* server connects to a physical network switch, not how a *virtual* server within a virtualized environment establishes its network connectivity.

A virtual switch does link to the physical network, but it does so via the hypervisor's physical NICs, not directly to an access point, and access points are generally for connecting wireless clients, not for virtual server direct network access.

Virtual servers (virtual machines) in a virtual environment connect to a software switch (also known as a virtual switch) configured on the hypervisor. This virtual switch acts as a bridge, connecting the virtual network adapters of the virtual servers to the hypervisor host's physical network adapters, which are in turn connected to the physical network.