VMware Distributed Switch with VLAN

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• Make two cheating SG200 four switches with vlan

  Hello

  I have two switches SG200 I want to divide it into 2 VLANS totally independent.

  My guess is that I could create a VLAN #2 and then assign 1-24 of VLAN (default) #1 and ports 25-48 of VLAN #2.

  Do the same with the second switch.

  And finally connect the cable from the port 1 switch 1 to port 1 of the 2 switch and

  another cable to port 25 on switch 1 to port 25 on switch 2.

  For some reason, devices can bee 'ping' on the same ports vlan switch 1 but cannot reach the devices on the switch 2.

  Is there a way to do this with SG200 switches?

  Thank you

  It is a valid topology.

  Any individual connection to the router should be UNTAG vlan 1 and vlan 2 UNTAG.

  Any connection host for the vlan 1 should be vlan 1 UNTAG, any connection host in vlan 2 should be vlan 2 UNTAG. Marking only that we care is between the switches, 1u, 2 t trunk. Everything else is respectively not marked.

  -Tom
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• How to create 5 of Vmware Distributed Switch on Stand Alone host?

  Hi is this posible to carete Vmware 5 Distirbuted single host Stand switch without using virtual Center Server?

  Sorry not possible.  You need vcenter Server to use this feature.  Why do you use vds, if you do not have vCenter.  It doesn't seem to be much point.

• Can I create with vSphere Enterprise Edition distributed vNetwork distributed switch?

  From the following URL, I wonder whether we can create vNetwork distributed switch with our existing Enterprise Edition.

  http://www.VMware.com/products/vSphere/buy/editions_comparison.html

  If the answer is YES, could any elaborate colleague on "Enabler for 3rd party switch support?  Currently, we use DELL switches.

  Thank you

  as said Enterprise Plus license is necessary for a vNetwork Distributed Switch.  You can create one under Enterprise license, but don't be fooled, you can not use.

  Maybe VMware one day will remove the ability to create even one based on the license model.

• vNetwork Distributed switches

  I read somewhere that he said,

  "The Cisco Nexus 1000V series is VMware Ready certified to be compatible with VMware vSphere as a vNetwork Distributed Switch with support for VMware ESX and ESXi hypervisors and integration with VMware vCenter Server"

  My question is, can to impliment in vSphere 4 without vNetwork Distributed Switch Cisco Nexus 1000V.

  Thank you

  Third VSwitches, such as the Nexus 1000V, need support to the vNetwork switches distributed.  This means that you must have the Enterprise + licenses for vSphere to take advantage of the Nexus.

  The API used by the third-party switches distributed vNetwork is only for the distributed switches.

  -jk

• 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

• Help with script distributed switches Reporting

  Hello everyone, my name is Sebastian and I have a question for the VMware community.

  I need to know what network card physical and ESX are connected to a distributed switch. I've found that for Virtual Switch: Re: help with vSwitch reporting script. I would do the same thing with DvSwitch.

  Any idea?

  Thank you very much in advance for your help.

  Kind regards

  Sébastien.

  Take a look at 1. Re: get NIC host assigned to a dvSwitch  

• VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch Configuration

  Hello

  Please suggest... As I intend to configure VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch, I have question if my vCenter comes down to will my vm to communicate with the external network or not?

  Thank you

  Hello

  very good question, yes even your virtual machines can communicate with external networks because ESX/ESXi contain hidden vSwitch,

  For more information the article below

  http://www.google.co.in/#sclient=psy&hl=en&source=hp&q=How+VMware+vNetwork+Distributed+Switch+work+if+vCenter+fail+site%3A+blog.srinfotec.com&pbx=1&oq=How+VMware+vNetwork+Distributed+Switch+work+if+vCenter+fail+site:+blog.srinfotec.com&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=s&gs_upl=1070l6889l2l9388l13l13l0l0l0l2l440l2757l0.8.4.0.1l13l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=b2a44f43975a6a66&biw=1366&bih=647

  or

  http://blog.srinfotec.com/?p=326

  concerning

  Kardous

• VSphere of VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch

  I'm a bit confused on VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch and Nexus1000. I'm in 4.1

  my understanding is that Nexus 1000 is an improved version of the vDS and they have different licenses.

  vDS is available in the enterprise and Nexus is available only in Enterprise Plus. Am I wrong?

  The licensing model was different in 4.0?

  NO.

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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!

• Management of distributed switch CLI?

  I have a DvSwitch.

  I want to add NEW groups of ports,

  But I don't want to use vCenter.

  I have a lot to add, to almost 800

  of the 800, 600 would be port groups with vlan simple no markings...

  the rest 200 would be with 21 .1q VLAN per port group...

  I want to script it. then place in a ssh/shell window

  can it be done?

  Hello

  You can use the powercli New-VDPortgroup command to create groups of ports on the distributed virtual switches. You must have installed for this powercli.

  Try the following command "Get-VDSwitch-name 'MyVDSwitch' |" New-VDPortgroup-name of the "MyVDPortGroup" - NumPorts 8 - VLanId 4 ".

  You can see the following link for more details. https://pubs.VMware.com/vSphere-51/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.VMware.PowerCLI.cmdletref.doc%2FNew-VDPortgroup.html

  Thank you

  Arun

• 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.

• 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/

• 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

• '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