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• VMware Distributed Switch with VLAN

  Hi again,

  A lot of work with VLAN now.

  But just a quick Questions. Is there a documentation or HowTo Guides how to set up vSphare VMware Distributed Switch with several VLANS on a Switch GS724Tv4?

  

  But soon, I try to add a host or network, it is empty.

  This is probably an easy problem of VMware, but I try here first to see if someone has document guide HowTo so I can start with.

  Thank you

  Christian

  Never mind about this,

  I found the problem on my own, but perhaps a documentation would be great to have. But it's a good start to have the right license of VMware, before you start.

  * I was just out of luck when I thought *.

  / Christian

• Need to obtain information from a host distributed switch

  Hi all

  I want to get information distributed switch of a host.

  With the script below am able to get the name of the switch, network cards added to the dvswitch and its status.

  $report = @()
  foreach ()$sw in (Get-VirtualSwitch -distributed)) {}
  $uuid = $sw. ExtensionData.Summary.Uuid
  $sw . ExtensionData.Config.Host | %{
  $portStates = $sw. ExtensionData.FetchDVPorts ($null)
  $esx = Get-View $_. Config.Host
  $netSys = Get-vue $esx. ConfigManager.NetworkSystem
  $netSys . NetworkConfig.ProxySwitch | where {$_. Uuid -eq $uuid} | %{
  foreach ($pnicSpec in $_. Spec.Backing.PnicSpec) { }
  $row = "" | Select Host, dvSwitch, Teddy bear, PortLinkUp
  $row . Host = $esx. Name
  $row .dvSwitch = $sw. Name
  $row . PNic = $pnicSPec. PnicDevice
  $row . PortLinkUp = () $portStates | où {$_. Clé - eq $pnicSPec. UplinkPortKey}). State.RunTimeInfo.LinkUp
  $report += $row
  }
  }
  }
  }
  

  $report

  
  

  But I would like to get the information of physical switch (switch. physical name and port information of each vmnic connected to this host please help to get the same thing.)

  Note:

  CDP information are enabled.
  

  Since you have the natachasery, it would be a matter of using a script like Re: how to get the CDP in Switch Cisco values? for the information of the COP.

• How to remove ESXi host of Distributed Switch

  3 Cluster DRS - 1 x physical, 2 nested nodes in a LAB environment

  I need to downgrade a 6.0 U2 ESXi host and replace it (from ESXi nested in Physics). I am trying to remove the host from a distributed switch, but it seems that I can't do that until I remove it from the Distributed Switch. I can't remove the VMkernel group management ports that prevents me to remove the host from the Distributed Switch. Any suggestions? I guess that I need that migrate to a Standard switch first?

  I am connected to the ESXi host through vSphere Client, migrated the group management to a Standard switch ports, then I was able to clear the host of the distributed switch. I could then remove the host from the Cluster.

• vSphere Distributed Switch

  Hi, I recently updated my vcenter of 5.1 to 5.5 but my vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) is always version 5.1. Now, I have to create another VDS is it compatible with the vcenter 5.5 or do I need to update my

  VDS from 5.1 to 5.5

  Hello

  Please check the link for vDS below set to level.

  https://pubs.VMware.com/vSphere-55/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.VMware.vSphere.networking.doc%2FGUID-330A0689-574A-4589-9462-14CA03F3F2F4.html

  In brief

  You must have first the vCenter to 5.5

  Then, ESXi 5.5 using the vDS

  Then you can upgrade vDS on the fly.

  Suhas

• Management on a distributed switch network

  Hey guys,.

  I have a noob question - is there a problem given the management network for a distributed switch?
  Someone has said that if I lose the vCenter for some reason, I won't be able to connect to hosts. It seems logical, but I'm not sure that's true.

  
  Thank you!

  vCenter server unavailability will not stop manage you your ESXi host directly if you have migrated vmk management service VDS.

  worst case, you have an option under Network Restore Options in DCUI from host to migrate vmk management back to vs.

• 'upgrade' control of Distributed Switch for network IO / LACP improvements via PowerCLI?

  vSphere 6.0.  PowerCLI 6.0 R1.

  
  

  After using the New-VDSwitch PowerCLI command, I noticed that the Web Client vSphere shows there are "updates available" to the distributed switch resulting.

  
  

  I know that I can right-click on the distributed switch and select upgrade in the Web Client.

  
  

  Someone knows how can I perform the upgrade using PowerCLI?

  

  search terms: nioc

  Here is the code I ended up with yesterday before reading your response... is it ok for you?

  Also, is it OK to use 'ReconfigureDvs' instead of 'ReconfigureDvs_Task '?

  PS how do you get syntax colorization of your code PowerCLI?

  $myvDS = news-VDSwitch-Verbose - name $myvDSwitchName - location $myNetFolder - NumUplinkPorts 2

  # Upgrading capacity DSwitch "NIOC v3" and "Enhanced LACP Support.

  $spec = new-Object VMware.Vim.VMwareDVSConfigSpec

  $spec.networkResourceControlVersion = 'version 3 '.

  $spec.lacpApiVersion = "multipleLag".

  $spec.configVersion = $myvDS.ExtensionData.config.configVersion

  $myvDS.ExtensionData.ReconfigureDvs ($spec)

  # Activate the NIOC

  $myvDS.ExtensionData.EnableNetworkResourceManagement ($true)

  # Extract our object to collect the current configuration

  $myvDS = get-VDSwitch $myvDS

• Distributed Switch vs switch Standard

  Hey all,.

  I was wondering if someone could answer some questions for me on distributed switches. I've worked with vmware for a few years now, but believe it or not I've never configured a distributed switch. The environment I work in always used standard switch, and when you're dealing with people who have the mentality of "if it ain't broke...". ', it is easy to become complacent. Everything in my environment is 5.1 incidentally.

  I read various articles on capacity now, but I don't have a test environment to break, so I have to pay attention to any changes I make. I thought it was better to ask those who are familiar with him before deciding on future changes.

  -What I lose any host on network management (what I used with switches std) as soon as I create a distributed switch?

  -Distributed is vCenter wide switching, or can I create several switches distributed by cluster, or only with certain subnets included?

  -What happens when I add a new host in a cluster with a distributed switch? It is automatically get set up with the distributed Switch networking capabilities?

  -Are there pitfalls or problems I should be aware, either when creating a distributed switch or in the day-to-day management of the/them?

  -What is the best thing that I win? Worse, I've lost?

  Thanks for your comments.

  Hello

  To answer your question:

  (1) so you don't lose everything as soon as you create the switch. You can create a vDS (assuming that licenses) at any time and configure / play with him. Until connect you hosts and uplinks, so it is a pretty useless component in vCenter.

  (2) a vDS is wide vcenter. However, you can create them individually if oyu want. That is to say - one for the traffic of comments, one for management, one for storage.  You can also have them by cluster if you REALLY want to and just add the hosts in this cluster in particular switch that you built. But reducing to zero the point of them a bit.

  (3) when you add the host, you will be asked what you want to use, if you want to migrate all the standard switch VMK interfaces and if you want to migrate VMs. ACE as soon as this host and its specific uplinks are on the switch then the host will be able to use the vDS for everything you have set for rising connections.

  (4) didn't really create them. Some people are a little cautious host management of investment (usually vmk0) on them, some people are not. In general, the rule is that with a vDS you can not manage it if vCenter is down. But with a vSwitch you can connect to the host directly and set it up in this way individually. There are traps in this respect of binding of static ports on the port groups, but it can be bypassed by the binding of ports muralism on the management ports group. Chris Wahl explains better than I've rambled

  (5) the best thing you can is to have a centralized management and create groups of ports. You have a new VLAN? Need a new group of port? Simply create once for the vDS and it applies to all guests! In addition, you also get control network IO, where you can assign actions to specific types of traffic and other goodies that are not available on standard switches. I would say that you lose much, vDS if you have the license and and a fairly large area are the way forward management. Trying to think really inconvenience but I can't!

  Happy to help you further!

• Configure VTEP VXLAN on distributed switch?

  Hello everyone

  I've found this discussion: How to test VXLAN

  But I'm still not sure.

  I environment vSphere 6 with a 3-node cluster and server vCenter (trial mode).

  I would just try the VXLAN by adding a VTEP to a distributed switch.

  For each of the nodes would be a VTEP.

  I really should he use Manager of NSX and NSX controller etc. to achieve this, or is there the possibility to simply add a VTEP to a distributed switch?

  KR & thanks in advance!

  Lukas

  You can use the last Director 5.5.3 vCloud and vCloud network and security 5.5.4, they are compatible and supported for ESXi/vCenter 6.0.

  See VMware product interoperability Matrices or documentation of the respective product for more details.

• vSphere Distributed Switch 5.5 traffic filtering and tagging

  Someone had a chance to create a script to update the traffic filtering and marking of area of a group of ports on a vSphere 5.5 Distributed Switch? The settings are only exposed in the web client for Onyx is not an option.

  I need to create a rule with the values below.

  Traffic Filterig and marking:

  Set State enabled

  New rule of network traffic

  Name: name of the traffic rule

  Action: Tag

  CoS value: tag value Update CoS: 4

  Qualifiers of traffic:

  Traffic management: evacuation

  New qualifying traffic system: vMotion

  This is as much as I can get.

  $VDSPortGroup = get-VDSwitch Test - dvSwitch | Get-VDPortGroup Test-PG

  $Spec = new-Object VMware.Vim.DVPortgroupConfigSpec

  $Spec.configVersion = $VDSPortGroup.ExtensionData.Config.ConfigVersion

  $Spec.defaultPortConfig = new-Object VMware.Vim.VMwareDVSPortSetting

  $Spec.defaultPortConfig.FilterPolicy = new-Object VMware.Vim.DvsFilterPolicy

  Sorry, it took a little longer than expected.

  Try like this

  $dvSwName = "dvSw1".

  $dvPgNames = "dvPg1".

  $dvSw = get-VDSwitch-name $dvSwName

  # Activate LBT

  foreach ($pg in (Get-View-Id $dvSw.ExtensionData.Portgroup |)) Where {$dvPgNames - contains $_.} {Name}))

  $spec = new-Object VMware.Vim.DVPortgroupConfigSpec

  $spec. ConfigVersion = $pg. Config.ConfigVersion

  $spec. DefaultPortConfig = New-Object VMware.Vim.VMwareDVSPortSetting

  $spec. DefaultPortConfig.FilterPolicy = New-Object VMware.Vim.DvsFilterPolicy

  $filter = new-Object VMware.Vim.DvsTrafficFilterConfig

  $filter. Nom_agent = "dvfilter-credits-vmware.

  $ruleSet = new-Object VMware.Vim.DvsTrafficRuleset

  $ruleSet.Enabled = $true

  $rule = new-Object VMware.Vim.DvsTrafficRule

  $rule. Description = "name of traffic rule".

  $rule. Direction = "outgoingPackets."

  $action = new-Object VMware.Vim.DvsUpdateTagNetworkRuleAction

  $action. QosTag = 4

  $rule. Action += $action

  $ruleSet.Rules += $rule

  $filter. TrafficRuleSet += $ruleSet

  $spec. DefaultPortConfig.FilterPolicy.FilterConfig += $filter

  $pg. ReconfigureDVPortgroup ($spec)

  }

• migration of the distributed switch standard, how much should be created?

  I'm migrating my VMs from standard to distributed switches.  Are there practices for distributed switches how you create?  Vmotion traffic must be on a separate dvswitch?  My plan was to a dvswitch for vMotion and the other for my VMs and mgmt of ESXi servers.  OR would they all simply in the same switch?

  Thanks in advance.

  Do not forget that each vDS need your own uplinks (physical network interfaces)... If you have enough rising, you can create several vDS, but with a small number of uplink, a better approach is to create just a single vDS and a group of ports for each type of traffic (vMotion, mgmt, VM)... and you can specify the uplink for each port group to use by using the configuration of aggregation and failover.

• Script adding a host to a distributed switch does not

  It's weird and I'm sure it's something simple.  I've created a script that configures the NTP and the syslog on a host computer.  I added on the configuration of the standard vswitch0 and part works fine.  I set the MTU, add a vMotion and port FT and that part works fine. I wanted to add on a section of code to add the host of our distributed switch.  Environment vSphere 5.5 U2, switch is a distributed switch 5.5.  For some reason, the code is not error at all but just does nothing.  However, if I paste the code into a Powershell window it works fine.  Same code, same host, same switch.  Ideas as to why it works manually by pasting the code into a window, but does not work, I use the script itself.  Here's the code that does not work in the script:

  #Adds vmnic5 and vmnic6 for the distributed switch

  Write-Host

  Write-Host «Addition of $VMHost to the switch distributed $vds...» "- ForegroundColor"green ".

  Disconnect-VIServer *-confirm: $false #earlier part of the script is directly connected to the host

  SE connect-VIServer $vcenter | Out-Null #$vcenter variable created earlier in the script

  Get-VDSwitch $vds | Add-VDSwitchVMHost-Server $vcenter - VMhost $VMhost #$vds and $VMhost variables collected earlier in the script

  $vmnic5 = get-VMHost $VMhost | Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter-physics - name vmnic5

  $vmnic6 = get-VMHost $VMhost | Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter-physics - name vmnic6

  Get-VDSwitch $vds | Add-VDSwitchPhysicalNetworkAdapter - VMHostPhysicalNic $vmnic5 - confirm: $false

  Get-VDSwitch $vds | Add-VDSwitchPhysicalNetworkAdapter - VMHostPhysicalNic $vmnic6 - confirm: $false

  Seems pretty simple, but for some reason it just doesn't work.  Any ideas?

  When you load the script into an editor (PowerShell ISE for example) and can run from there, run the cmdlets vDS?

• vNetwork Distributed Switch

  I am preparing to install vSphere 5.5 and started the design of virtual network. I was counting on the creation of switches distributed when I read that only vSphere Enterprise PLUS supports the vNetwork Distributed Switch. Is this right? I am only able to create Standard switches on each host? Is there a way to export the configuration of a Standard switch that you can with a distributed switch?

  I was counting on the creation of switches distributed when I read that only vSphere Enterprise PLUS supports the vNetwork Distributed Switch. Is this right? --> Yes

  I am only able to create Standard switches on each host?--> if the license is less than Enterprise, then Yes

  Is there a way to export the configuration of a Standard switch that you can with a distributed switch? N ° but there are a lot of scripts PowerCLI available that can help you in mass deploy a Standard switch configuration.

• Help with distributed switch

  Hello, I am trying to understand how it is possible for the movement of vmotion separated on a distributed switch to another vm traffic from virtual machines. For example, in my test ENV, I have 1 physical host with 4 vmnic. When I create a distributed switch and specify 4 ports it creates the default dvPortgroup with 4 uplinks. Now, if I create a VMKernel port on a group of different ports on the distributed switch, it is still going through the 4 ports of uplink, then where is the physical separation? How to recognize a group of ports (let's say my VMs) for use vmnic1 and vmnic2 and my second portgroup to use vmnic2 and vmnic3? Any help is appreciated. On a standard switch, there is only one in a relationship so it is clear how vmotion traffic uses a vmnic and port for VM VM uses another but it seems that the switch distributed, it uses all the available vmnic for all traffic, am I correct here? Now, I know that for a single host it would be unwise to use the distributed switch, but I'm just trying to understand how that physical separation using a distributed switch?

  You can specify active / in standby/Unused rising within the dvportgroup itself.  As always, you'll want to VLANS for logical separation.  In addition, you can devote the physical NIC for certain types of traffic to which case you set the rising Active / unused dvportgroup level.  For the 10GbE adapters, you'll need some sort of QoS in the layer of server (such as UCS) platform, or if you have Enterprise Plus, control of network IO.

  All the best,

  Mike

  Post edited by: Mike Brown to recorrect stupid autocorrects

• vSphere update your distributed switch 5.1 to 5.5

  Hi after that the upgrade to vsphere vsphere 5.5 5.1 and using vsphere distribution swtich to VDS needs to upgrade to 5.5 see a screenshot in attachment.

  The VDS 5.5 upgrade will cause failures or packet drops?

  The upgrade of virtual distributed switch won't cause any downtime. It is a non-distrayant operation, you should not see any package drop.

  -A