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• 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

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• Switch std to distributed switch migration.

  I have 2 Dell T710 with 6 NIC cards.

  I configured on the 4 standard vSwitches.  Each standard vSwitch is connected to a physical network adapter card.

  I have a vSwitch for manage management, one for vMotion for iSCSI and one for traffic from the virtual machine.

  The reason I set up is to put the vMotion, iSCSI on a different NETWORK card and so another port on the physical port in order to get the maximum flow.

  Now, when I tried to configure a switch to vDistributed.  I was reading this document from vmware (http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere-vnetwork-ds-migration-configuration-wp.pdf) and there seems to be all the VLAN based.  In the vDistributed switch, I create the port group, and then associate the group the dvUplink ports and the dvUplink will map to the physical NETWORK adapter on the host.

  I don't seem to find an option to specify the Group of ports on the dvPortGroup if East of vMotion, management and/or iSCSI traffic.

  I'm missing something.

  Can someone tell me some good practices of switch vDistributed?

  Thanks for the information and have a good year.

  Anthony.

  ATC wrote:

  I don't seem to find an option to specify the Group of ports on the dvPortGroup if East of vMotion, management and/or iSCSI traffic.

  I'm missing something.

  You will need to go to the host tab configuration, management network, distributed switch - then "virtual cards" - the Vmkernel ports for the distributed switches.

• Host virtual computer and Migration of data store

  I'm curious. I have an environment with Cisco UCS UC servers without them. Due to they are C-Series all storage is local for UC virtual machines run. I'll add some of the UCS C-Series servers and you want to move two of my current C-Series server CPU virtual machines to the new. I have the license Enterprise Plus 4.1 for all servers and execution of vCenter. The migration will be basicall move local data store to store local data as well under the name from host to host. My plan is to turn off the virtual machines and migrate both host and the data store at the same time. I have groups of ports built as follows:

  Port of VMKernerl groups:

  -Storage (for future shared storage)

  -vMotion

  -PI

  -ESXi Mgmt

  Virtual machine:

  -CPU VMS

  -Machines virtual server

  My overall question is during this migration takes place this network (or a group of Port) will be the traffic go anywhere for the move? My guess is because it is the local storage, it will use the Mgmt. ESXi

  Thank you!

  If the virtual machine will be moved to store Local data to store common data shared through 2 esxi host, then the storage shared for local storage.

  So this will be the case through network vMotion and not via the management network.

  But you can enable vmotion on management network itself. If you have configured like this then yes communication will be via the management via vmotion network IPkerenel active network.

• Virtual Center server migration, tips

  We intend to move our virtual Center Server out of a virtual machine to its own physical computer. We are tired of weird weird to have VC server as a VM and have decided to give it its own box. Can someone point me in the right direction of how to move the Virtual Center of one machine to another server? I have trouble finding a guide.

  I did a couple of times.  Just build vCenter on the physical server as if you were from scratch (i.e. build a default vCenter facility).  Save your current SQL vCenter database and restore it on the new server.  Fact.

• virtual network card to the physical network mapping and default loadbalancing

  What Virtual Machine virtual network card is map physical NIC.

  For example.

  lets assume Vswitch1 on host1 esx dedicated for the network of the virtual machine (port group) and it has 6 cards network linked to it (vmnic1, vmnic2, vmnic0, vmnic3)

  Load policy (default) Balancing - from the originating virtual port (it balances only outbound traffic through all the nic assigned to vswitch1 right?)

  ESXi host1 <-Vswitch1 (the VM network) <---(vmnic 0-vmnic 3)

  Lets assume that esxi hosting 6 virtual machines and each virtual machine has two network cards configured.  Through some documents, come out of that when the virtual machine is running, it gets connected to the ports of availabe on virtual swicth. say, I turn on the virtual machine in the order VM1, VM2... VM6.

  Vmname virtual adapter port on virtual switch1 Mapping of the physical network adapter                        

  VM1 eth0, eth1 1.2 which mappeed of the physical NIC to eth0, eth1?

  VM2            eth0,eth1                              3,4                                      ?

  VM3            eth0,eth1                              5,6                                      ?

  VM4            eth0,eth1                              7,8                                      ?

  VM5            eth0,eth1                              9,10                                    ?

  VM6            eth0,eth1                              11,12                                  ?

  Since we use load balancing based on the virtual port, can two virtual map of the same virtual machine are mapped to the two physical NETWORK card I want say eth0 VM1 is mapped to the (physical nic) VMNIC0, VM1 eth1 get connected VMNIC1 (physical nic).

  It would be great if you could explain how the virtual network adapters are mapped to the physical NIC Y at - it a command or a script to the list NIC(of all vms hosted on esxi) virtual NETWORK adapter mappings physical in detail.

  .

  sansaran wrote:

  Is there a way to know what virtual NIC to connect to which physical NIC

  With the virtual NETWORK adapter, you hear the virtual card inside the VM? If if and when you use several VMNIC like you, there is no visibility in vCenter (usually vSwitches, we see with Distributed vSwitches).

  However, you can use the command-line ESXTOP tool in the view 'n', for the connection between the virtual machines and the outgoing vmnic.

• Bind Virtual Network Interfaces to the physical Interfaces

  Good day to all.

  My situation is as such:
  

  I have a virtual machine running Red Hat Enterprise Linux as guest OS and my host machine is a laptop running Windows 8.1. Each operating system has two network interface cards. I want to place the virtual machine on the line between a router that would be on the left (side Intranet) firewall followed by Internet on the right (side of the internet). I hope there is an option that would allow me to effectively "bind" one of each virtual NETWORK adapter to each physical NETWORK adapter, so that when I place the machine host on the network line, it would be like the VM would be online also. So, basically I want to accomplish what is highlighted in RED in my small figure above.

  The full rectangle is the guest OS with its two network cards on each side, and the incomplete rectangle is the host device with its own two network cards on each side. I hope that someone could point me in the right direction, it would be greatly appreciated.

  VMware Player, "Configure the adapter" parameters are indeed not unique for each virtual interface. You use VMware Workstation to meet your requirement. For workstation, you can create two VMnets and link your two adapters to them, then connect your two cards in the comments to the VMnet respectively

• Migrate the physical Machine

  Hello

  How can I migrate a physical machine in vmware server 2 on CentOS 5.

  Thank you.

  I think he should choose 'VMware virtual machine' as a type of destination.

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  Post edited by: janlib

  Sorry, I had to edit my post some time - I tried to explain two different types of P2V

• Switch Standard virtual and virtual distributed switch

  How to migrate the virtual machine to switch vNetwork Standard to a vNetwork Distributed Switch, where can I get more information? How to set up?

  Thank you

  I think that's what you're looking for

  It's pretty easy actually, I have not you, but once I had to manually migrate the 120VMs to one portgroup to another, now, it is quite easy to use GUI version 4.

  Migration of virtual machines between vSwitch or exchanges of vDS or dvPortgroups

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=1010612

• 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 distributed switch issues

  We're going from the standard virtual switches to virtual switches distributed in the coming months.

  We will use the Cisc00 1000v. The supervisor module runs on hardware, Cisco 1010.

  My questions are.

  1. is it better to keep management on virtual if possible standard switch connections?

  2. our Virtual Center servers are virtual machines should I move them to physics?

  This is why I generally prefer vDS with LBT, NIOC & SIOC; with this configuration you could use two connections rising 10GbE and be perfectly fine.

  Just use the standard pool and put the secondary 4th uplink for all networks.

  See you soon,.

  Paul

• Virtual distributed switches

  I'm trying to implement virtual switches distributed in vCenter. I created the distributed switch, then port groups. When I RT. Click the distributed switch > add a host, there is no available host. I have 3 hosts in a cluster, but I don't see one any of them. Any ideas how to add? We have a license from the company. Enterprise Plus it takes to add hosts? I think that would not allow you to add the distributed switch, if that were the case.

  Thank you

  Scott

  According to this document , you must use more Ent license for dvSwitch.

  I have a question, how have your host NIC and how many of them already used in VSS (Standard vSwitch)?

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• Report virtual distributed switch

  Hello

  I'm trying to write a script that will make my distributed virtual switches.  My Script is as follows:

  $reportcsv = @)
  Get-VdsDistributedPortgroup | Name - descending sort.
  {ForEach-Object
  $vdsportgroup = $_
  $vdsportgroupsec = $vdsportgroup | Get-VdsDVPortSecurityPolicy
  $Report = "" | Select-Object 'Port Group Name', 'number of Ports', 'Binding Port', 'Virtual Switch', 'VLAN Id', 'Type of VLAN", 'AllowPromiscuous',"Changes in MAC"," ' forged passes ""
  $Report. "' Name of the port group ' = $vdsportgroup. Name
  $Report. "" Number of Ports ' = $vdsportgroup. NumPorts
  $Report. "" The link port "= $vdsportgroup. PortBinding
  $Report. "" Virtual switch "= $vdsportgroup. VirtualSwitch
  $Report. "' VLAN Id ' = $vdsportgroup. VlanId
  $Report. "" Type of VLAN "= $vdsportgroup. VlanType
  $Report. "" AllowPromiscuous "= $vdsportgroupsec. AllowPromiscuous
  $Report. "' Change of MAC" = $vdsportgroupsec. MacChanges
  $Report. "" Forged passes ' = $vdsportgroupsec. AllowPromiscuous
  $reportcsv += $Report
  }

  The script works, however when I view the contents of $reportcsv values for AllowPromiscuous, MacChanges & ForgedTransmits presents itself as VMware.VimAutomation.VdsComponent.Types.V1.BoolPolicy.

  Does anyone have any suggestions?

  Thank you

  Frank

  These 3 properties are subject themselves, that's why the object type is displayed.

  You want the property of value of these items.

  BWT, no need to use the fling unsupported for vDS, all news are available via regular PowerCLI cmdlets.

  $reportcsv = @()
  Get-VirtualPortGroup -Distributed | Sort Name -Descending | ForEach-Object {
    $vdsportgroup = $_  $vdsportgroupsec = $vdsportgroup.ExtensionData.Config.DefaultPortConfig.SecurityPolicy  $Report = "" | Select-Object "Port Group Name","Number of Ports","Port Binding","Virtual Switch","VLAN Id","VLAN Type","AllowPromiscuous","MAC Changes","Forged Transmits"  $Report."Port Group Name" = $vdsportgroup.Name  $Report."Number of Ports" = $vdsportgroup.NumPorts  $Report."Port Binding" = $vdsportgroup.PortBinding  $Report."Virtual Switch" = $vdsportgroup.VirtualSwitch  $Report."VLAN Id" = $vdsportgroup.VlanId  $Report."VLAN Type" = $vdsportgroup.VlanType  $Report."AllowPromiscuous" = $vdsportgroupsec.AllowPromiscuous.Value  $Report."MAC Changes" = $vdsportgroupsec.MacChanges.Value  $Report."Forged Transmits" = $vdsportgroupsec.AllowPromiscuous.Value  $reportcsv += $Report}
  

• 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.

• 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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