Create a new vsphere standard switch and configure to provide the network access to VM and ESXi hosts. The standard vsphere switch can bridge traffic internally between virtual machines in the same VLAN and link to external networks via uplinks. vSphere Standard Switch is very similar to a physical Ethernet switch. Virtual machine network adapters […]
vSphere Distributed Switch
VMware – How to Add/Remove VMnic(uplinks) on DVswitch ?
Redundancy is much more important in virtualization environments since you never know how many virtual components will be impacted if you loose one physical hardware part.When its comes to VMware networking , you can share a single vmnic to N-number of virtual hosts.So one of the physical interface failure could cause big outage on the […]
VMware – How to Migrate VM’s from DVswitch to vSwitch ?
Most of the time we will be in a situation to Create a new vSphere distributed switch and migrating VM’s to it.But in rare cases , you may need to migrate the VM’s back to vSphere standard switch from vSphere distributed switch.These kind of situation arise when you don’t want to renew your vSphere Enterprise […]
How to Migrate the VM’s to vSphere Distributed Switch ?
When it comes to VMware networking , you should know about VSS (vSphere Standard Switch) and VDS (vSphere Distributed Switch). This article is going to demonstrate the migration of virtual machines from VSS (vSphere Standard Switch) to VDS (vSphere Distributed Switch). First we will see why do we need to virtualize the networking in VMware environment.The virtual […]
How to Create a vSphere Distributed switch and Port Group ?
VMware vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) provides a centralized VM network administration and that eases the management burden by treating the network as an aggregated resource.vSphere distributed switch can be divided as two logical sections. 1.Data Plane2. Management Plane.Data Plane is responsible for packet switching, filtering, tagging etc…Management plane just provides the complete control structure to […]
vSphere Distributed Switch – Configuration copies
I am not sure how VMware has plans on Vsphere standard switch’s (VSS) and vSphere distributed switch’s (VDS) future development.But definitely VDS has an edge over VSS. One of the main advantage of VDS is that, it maintains the same configuration across all the ESXi servers.You can also use VSS but it really difficult to […]