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We have a security requirement in our environment to limit the amount of virtual ports in each group of ports to which is necessary... essentially, any unused virtual ports in the port group.  Ridiculous, if I change the number of available ports will be that cause disruption?  The assignment of the ports is not sequential so I think that the VMS should be mixed with new ports.  Mainly concerns trade vStorage and vMotion.  Thank you all for any input/help!

If I understand the question could be rephrased as:

I have a dvPortgroup with static binding (inelastic) fixed size of 128 ports

Currently properties portgroup shows dvPorts from 501 to 628 belonging to this portgroup

There are 2 virtual machines (with single vNIC) connected, occupying ports 544 and 601

If I reduce the number of ports in that group of ports, there will be a series of new or different ports assigned to my portgroup and will be my VMs be reconnected to different ports?

Just tried it out in my own environment (5.5) - after you change the number of ports on my portgroup to 2, that it shows that now in portgroup properties these previously occupied 2 ports, if he refers to the example above - 544 and 601. No reconnect / disconnects / dragging around.

PortGroup in dvSwitch is nothing else than a container, that allows applying the same settings to the boot of the ports.

And just for the other thoughts - on dvSwitch a port can exist without a portgroup. If you are concerned about security, you probably pay attention also that can connect things to individual ports and change the settings on them.

I hope this helps.

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