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• standard of distributed switch migration oddities

  I have recently updated our laboratory to vsphere 5 and then switches distributed, after the migration of VM networks I noticed two machines still show an idle connection to the old standard switch this switch and portgroup be deleted on all host servers:

  

  I tried to remove the network card and it time on the removing of the inventory, virtual machine and re-adding it... any ideas on how to get rid of this?

  Usually, it shows if the virtual machine has a snapshot, which was connected to the Group of 'old' port

  André

• Virtual Switch Standard virtual Distributed Switch migration / a physical Uplinku

  Hello community,

  My ESXI 4.1 hostmachines are configured with virtual standard switches as follows:

  -1 xGbit public - network VMKERNEL management

  -2 x Gbit/active - VMotion + pi (VMKERNEL)

  -2 x Gbit/active - storage NAS (VMKERNEL)

  -2 x Gbit/active - VM LAN

  I want to migrate to a distributed virtual switch, but Ami don't know if it's possible. The problem is I onlyy a uplink public and I can't add the physical NIC as the standard switch and distributed virtual switch. IAM looking for a way to migrate the portgroup & physical uplink NIC in one step. Someone knows how to do this without adding a second NIC uplink? Please keep in mind that my vCenter is a virtual machine on this machine.

  Thanks in advance,

  Stephan

  Another person asked a similar question in which I looked at How to migrate from a vSwitch to the switch distributed - see if that answers your question.

• Distributed switch migration

  Hello

  We would like to migrate from standard switches to a distributed switch. Currently, we use different VLAN.

  Could someone help me on how to implement this migration, favorably without any downtime?

  Thank you

  Steven

  You can also have a look at this useful document: http://vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere-vnetwork-ds-migration-configuration-wp.pdf

  and if the info is useful, don't forget to serve point accordingly (useful/correct)

  concerning

  Jose Ruelas B

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• Standard switch DV Switch migration

  Hello the heroes of VMware.

  I intend to convert networking virtual switch to standard dv switch in my company in the context of ESX 4.1 to 5.5 upgrade infrastructure. We have about 160 guests and virtual 2000 computers in this project. From now on, we have rebuilt most of the hosts to 5.5 (dint want to upgrade, coz of the limitations of space on the startup of the Bank directory). Currently, we have created standard switches with the same configurations hosts 4.1.

  The standard configuration is like this, vswitches 2. 1 for management and vmotion with 2 physical links.

  2nd is for virtual machines with 4 X 1 gig nics. We are not view our uplinks, as we do not have virtual connect for our hp blades.

  We did an analysis, and most of VLANS match through consolidation.  So we need 2 dv switches to 160 guests, one for the IPC and the other is for production.

  Now us created these dv switches and added guests, but haven't removed rising standard switch, since the use of the network is quite high. Also, we cannot accommodate VMs downtime, but we can afford downtime of host (per host at a time).

  As the migration of port groups will migrate all virtual machines on this group of ports from one switch to another, if we do that, we have the same number of uplinks on vds as with vss to carry the load.

  Having said all that, can anyone give us some valuable tips on how to solve this problem and move to vds.

  Thank you.

  Thor.

  To add more worries, vMotion will not VSS for VDS support (correct me if I'm wrong), which excludes the issue of putting a host into maintenance mode, remove all top links from VSS and link them to the VDS and replace the virtual machines on the host.

  vMotion traffic itself does not care, but the workflow of migration requires the machine network virtual source is available on the destination host. It seems that you are due for 10 GbE cards to help face the apparent flood of network traffic.

  To be fair, moving around the virtual machine networks is a rather low-risk. If you plan not to move the vmkernel interfaces, which said you are on a completely different vSwitch, it's really just a matter of ensuring that your VDS is configured with the appropriate uplink slots and groups of ports. You can start a workflow of migration to move physical uplink (vmnic) and the virtual machines at the same time. To test this, you can migrate virtual machines on a host, run a few test VMs and try it.

• VSS migration to virtual Distributed Switch configuration

  Hi all

  I am trying to wrap my brain around that and just run into a few problems actually make things work. Please bear with me, I will try and describe the environment that I have and what I'm trying to building with like jargin little I can.

  My current vmware environment consists of 3 hosts vsphere 4.x and about 6 different subnets. My primary host vSphere is home to the largest part of the virtual machine and manages 5 different subnets connected to each of 5 virtual switches separated with 1 assigned to each NETWORK adapter. Also, there is a switch of kernel VM with a connection to my NetApp iSCSI. The other vSphere hosts are simple enough, the two are connected to subnet 1 with a virtual switch for it and a switch of kernel VM with a connection to the NetApp iSCSI.

  Each subnet in my lab is managed/break through the VLANS on Cisco devices, so I saw that it had to assign any settings VLAN since the power of VMware.

  If you refer to the VMWare vNetwork Distributed Switch: Migration and vmware Configuration guide, I am trying to migrate a seup similar to this:

  

  However, I'm running issues when you try to get the int hosts a vDS configuration. I could create a vDS for my root subnet, add one of my hosts vSPhere and migrate the virtual machine to the new port group in this vDS. The Service console as well as the VMKernel remain virtual switches on the host and I can't understand how these migrate to a vDS host without lose the connection.

  I'm asssuming based on the number of subnets that I manage between hosts, I'll finish with about a 5-switch vritualDistributed for subnets, each with at least 1 card a vSphere host physical NETWORK link up to the appropriate subnet. In addition to this, I'm assumining I'll need to create a vDS for the Service console and VMKernel (iSCIS) traffic. The Service Console are on the same subnet, some VM most residence on that subnet, separate VSS was created on the hosts to manage separate traffic.

  Any help anyone can provide on how to create vDS for SC/vmk traffic and get the associated host migrated to which would be very useful. As I said I was able to create 1 vDS and add a host computer via 1 uplink NIC with the virtual machine, but nothing beyond that seems bad connection.

  Feel you please free to ask for additional details, I know it's a lot and maybe a bit confusing. Thank you.

  -Bryan

  Hello

  If I'm correct, when the host is added the vDS and the creation of the vDS Service Console, I have to select an unused NIC and migrate the SC existing to the new group of port... or should I add a second SC for the VSS by using a NETWORK card available and who migrate to the new vDS?

  Yes, select an unused physical nic so that you have a physical nic connected to the VSS and the other to connect to the uplink of vDS group and migrate the SC. existing if you have several hosts, vMotion all VM and test to see if the migration without distruption, also works to keep details of the ILO ready incase you need to connect to the console of the server.

  This is a very good book white http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere-vnetwork-ds-migration-configuration-wp.pdf that provides detailed information about the migration.

  All the best.

  Kind regards
  Arun

  If you have found this or other useful information, please consider awarding points to 'Correct' or 'useful '. Regards, Arun VCP3/4, HPCP, HP UX CSA http://kb.vmware.com/

• Need to automate import/export or backup bookmarks for an organization

  I work in it for a (business) medium sized organization. I need a way to export and export bookmarks for all my users and I need it in a way that is automated or CLI (babysitting 100 + laptops and import in person are not an option). We transfer users to the new laptops in three weeks, but we need this feature to exist later too (so we can build something to automate backups of bookmark and restore with our internal network). We use Zenworks to work, but we have other options of script too.

  Any link I found on the command line options to run Firefox with other tools does not allow me to do what I need (that is, I have a way to export to a html element, but it is important do not; - switch migration gives me a GUI). All the resources that I found on Firefox command line arguments are not consistent and not clear on what the options work with which version. As such, I don't even know if options exist which would really help.

  Due to security issues, running a plugin or off-site storage favorite's options.

  I found the existence of profiles.ini and was able to write a script (beats windows cmd - God help me) to get out of this directory is created for the profile and then copy the files on the user's network drive. I also wrote one to copy a disc on their new profile user network. At this point, the problem I encounter is that firefox does not use the file most recent bookmark - < date > .json who gets slapped in the directory. Something else must refer to what bookmark file name to use. Hoping that there is something in the registry or in a plain text, not a sqllite db file, otherwise I am bit watered.

  I guess my question is the following... is there not an easier way to do this, or a command line option (firefox) to do what I need?

  Instead, someone has an idea of how I can tell firefox to use a specific bookmark to begin with, or the newest one in the directory profile? Once, it should be hands-off. This isn't a solution for one person.

  And third, if there is no answer to my first question, my question to the developers of Firefox is "why is this omitted basic functionality"? In my opinion, it is obvious and quite serious, I'd be willing to call a bug. Many others have the same problem. (If I don't get a viable solution for the first two questions, I'll follow with it in a more appropriate forum or email...)

  Thank you people, you really helped my pull together a solution! I think that this solution will be fine for now (I'm under these .bat files as long as the user, no system or an administrator.) I am Deploying via Zenworks, if there is more than one title to skin this cat...

  For exports that I did a file named override.ini I put it in c:\program files (x 86) \mozilla firefox\ that it contains:

  • [XRE]
  • EnableProfileMigrator = false

  ... I needed to do it because I didn't want the GUI to auto import on a first run (turns me off, no matter that it is actually necessary or not in this case).

  Beats my export file for XP (because of goto:EOF, you must run cmd.exe for this one with / x):

  • Set copycmd = / y
  • c:
  • If not exist them "%userprofile%\application data\mozilla\firefox\profiles.ini" goto:EOF
  • CD "%userprofile%\application data\mozilla\firefox\.
  • for /f "tokens = 1, 2 delims = /" % in (' findstr/l ".default" profiles.ini") together called var1 = %% j
  • CD profiles\%var1%
  • otherwise there is h:\backupbookmarks (mkdir H:\backupbookmarks)
  • copy H:\backupbookmarks places.sqlite

  My .bat import for Windows 7 file:

  • Set copycmd = / y
  • Start "browser" /d "C:\Program Files (x 86) \Mozilla Firefox" firefox.exe
  • time-out period 7
  • c:
  • CD %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\
  • for /f "tokens = 1, 2 delims = /" % in (' findstr/l ".default" profiles.ini") together called var1 = %% j
  • CD profiles\%var1%
  • If exist h:\backupbookmarks\places.sqlite copy h:\backupbookmarks\places.sqlite

  Hope that helps someone else out there. I did similar scripts for Chrome and Safari too, so I should really this post on my blog... will have to start a blog that is not only Linux, though!

• Options grayed out after that migration vSwitch0 vmk0 to distributed network switch

  I have a bunch of ESXi 6 guests, where I would like the default vSwitch0 to a vDS management interface. However, it seems that the management network gets screwed more or less of this operation

  First I tried to simply migrate the physical interface and vmkernel to vds = no chance (resets the form configuration time to hosts)

  Then I tried to connect a NIC seconday to the same switch, adding as a management console interface, make two interfaces marked as management interfaces. The uplink of vSwitch0 is replaced by the new interface and the vds is mapped to the original management interface. From this point, I can migrate vmk0 to the distributed switch and remove the extra card. All good, at least at first glance. The army continues to communicate with vCenter and so on. However, return to the console options to "Network adapters" and "VLANS (optional)" are grayed out. The only way I managed to get back them is again a reset to the default settings of the management network.

  After som test front and rear, it seems that these options disappear as soon as vm0 leaves vSwitch0?

  Any ideas how to solve this problem?

  The army continues to communicate with vCenter and so on. However, back to the console options for "Network adapters" and "VLANS (optional)" are grayed out. The only way I managed to get back them is again a reset to the default settings of the management network.

  I guess that's the expected behavior, because once your vmk0 has been migrated to vDS, now the vDS control plan which is with vCenter server will allow you to change these settings as network card and VLAN ID etc.

• 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.

• Migration of distributed switch

  I plan a migration of the Nexus 1 k and I'm trying to do with no interruption of service.  I found a blog post that discussed migration switch and built a project around that plan, but wanted to see if what I was going seemed feasible.  Anyone have any ideas on the next plan?

  
  

  1. Build the new VMware Distributed Virtual Switch with all the required VM networks
  2. Go to each host and build a local switch with all VM networks required with network names to which is added "_locale.
  3. The first selected host detach one of the 10G from 1 NICs K and again fix local switch (expected loss of ping ping 1 or 0)
  4. Go into each virtual machine on the selected host and change VM portgroup of correspondents '_locale"portgroup (expected loss of ping ping 1 or 0)
  5. Detach the remaining nic 10G on 1 K and attach to the local switch
  6. Remove the selected host from 1 k
  7. Add a network card to 10G on the host selected to DvS created in step 1 (expected loss of ping ping 1 or 0)
  8. Go into each virtual machine on the host selected and change the VM "_locale" portgroup to corresponding portgroup on DvS (expected loss of ping ping 1 or 0)
  9. Remains 10G nic switch Local detach and attach to DvS
  10. Remove the Local switch
  11. Repeat steps 3 through 10 for the remaining guests

  Why use the local switches between the two? Can't you just use the network option on the VDS migration to get the networking of VM directly on a VDS?

  Concerning

  Girish

• The steps required to perform a migration to a new server vCenter using distributed switches?

  We are currently on version 5.1 of vCenter and ESXi 5.1 on all our guests.  We use a vDS on our current server vCenter and will need to migrate to a new server vCenter soon.  Is there a documentation about the steps to migrate to a new server vCenter using switches distributed?  We hope to achieve this goal without any downtime.  The problem is that we need that VDS on our 10GB network for the aggregation of links.  If having to migrate guests at standard switches before moving them to the new vCenter server, there will be problems of network performance.

  Because information about your environment are stored in the database of vcenter al you should just be able to stand up the new vCenter server and that it points to the existing database

• migrate VM switch distributed to a standard switch

  Hello

  I need to migrate a virtual machine that is hosted on a cluster with switch distributed to another cluster with standard switches.

  This migration is possible when the virtual machine is turned off.

  By default, migrate function I get the following error message.

  Is there another solution?

  (without removing the network adapters)

  Thank you, Sven

  You can check that the host of the virtual machine's network configuration is running. He is a relevant portgroup created on the vSwitch Standard VM.

• Migrating from a distributed virtual switch pass

  I have a cluster that is approved for business-more.  I would like the host to a distributed switch.  The configuration of the virtual switch is as follows:

  4 NICs connected to a host, the NIC are part of an EtherChannel.  The network adapters are teamed up with ip route based on the hash of the IP.  All network adapters are connected to the same vSwitch with port groups created for access to the different VLANS

  I did the following to try to migrate to the new distributed switch: I broke the EtherChannel and removed three network adapters on the virtual switch and assigns them to the distributed switch.  At the same time grouping NETWORK adapters on the virtual channel switch based on the originating virtual, we changed the port ID.  I then migrated the service console more for the new switch successfully distributed.  I have created groups of ports on the virtual switch.

  The question is when I re - create the EtherChannel falls hosts on the network.  I have noted the following: "see attachment".

  Anyone using EtherChannel with distributed switches?

  Any help would be appreciated...

  How to configure etherchannel on your Cisco switch? You may not use LACP or PAgP. You must use "channel-group mode on.

• Full migration to a distributed virtual switch

  Hi all

  When an ESX Server is first installed, it uses a switch vNetwork standard for COS as vswif0.

  When this server is added to the server Vcenter, the Vcenter contacted with ESX vswif0 via the standard switch.

  What is the process to move the vswif0 vDS? Is this possible via CLI?

  A new vswif to create in the vDS with a new uplink, remove the ESX the Vcenter and add it with the new ip vswif and then delete the old vswif of the standard switch.

  Is there a better way to do it?

  Kind regards

  Sharath

  It's better if you could refer to vSS to vDS migration TSB practice.

  In the doc mentioned about 2 x posible to migrate:

  1. the host migrate with some distruption to virtual machines

  2. the host migrate without distruption to virtual machines

  So, I prefer option 1, because you only have a physical nic involved.

  This option includes two steps:

  A. migrating from virtual port (console service etc.) first--so you can always manage ESX

  B. Migrate machine virtual network (Distruption on the network of the virtual computer until step B)

  Host migration with a few disruptions to virtual machines

  The process as outlined in step 3 of the chart includes two substeps:

  A. migration vmnic and virtual ports (VMkernel and Service Consoles) ports can be migrated in one step of

  vCenter Server.

  B. migration of VM networking where virtual machines are migrated from vSS Port port vDS DV groups groups.

  If all vmnic is migrated in step A, then all the virtual machines will lose network connectivity until step b. step B can follow quickly after (that's the step A

  up to the speed of the operator), but active sessions will probably drop. However, VMs may stay lit.

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• 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!