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• Traffic filtering and tagging

  Any body has used traffic filtering and marking for traffic filtering, such as the declining traffic, creating port includes restrictions by vm, or the creation of DMZ as sets of rules, etc.?

  Thank you

  Sam

  Well, you don't need NSX, this is a core feature of the distributed vSwitch available since vSphere 5.5, it allows you to create a layer 2 and layer rules firewall of 3/4 on distributed distributed groups of ports or ports.

  I used it to isolate the virtual machines on the DMZ network similar to what would achieve a PVLAN configuration and I would say that it works pretty good, at least on a small scale.

  Check out these links:

  http://blogs.VMware.com/vSphere/2014/03/vSphere-distributed-switch-traffic-filtering.html

  https://pubs.VMware.com/vSphere-60/topic/com.VMware.vSphere.networking.doc/GUID-67CA4C18-4F18-4E23-A5C7-BC33112D4433.html

• 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

• Error HTTP 500 HOL - vSphere Distributed Switch from A to Z-

  It seems that there are problems with the "vSphere Distributed Switch from A to Z" HOL.  I get the following error message when you try to access the laboratory (see screen capture below).  Other labs are working fine for me.  I tried to access this laboratory of 5 different computers with the same results.

  There was a communication error with the server. Try again in: 26

  Message: HTTP 500 Code

  

  Any help would be appreciated.

  Try the testdrive tenant.

  He seemed to do a pod stuck in the queue of our deployment for the testdrive tenant. That may have caused this problem.

  -Doug

• HOL-SDC-1402: Vsphere Distributed Switch from A to Z - ControlCenter VM did not get an IP address

  Something is wrong with this laboratory.  The controlcenter VM never gets an ip address, so that you never get to vCenter to do anything.  I used this lab a couple of times in the course of the last few weeks but just noticed this problem tonight.  I restarted the VM controlcenter with no luck.  He seems to think that it is disconnected from everything.

  All opinions are appreciated.

  

  Well, I finished the laboratory and registered again.  This seems to have solved the problem.  Sorry for the post before trying this one.

• Sections, filters and Tags - what is it? Who's with them?

  Hi all -

  Let's delve deeper into help the sidecar to accompany our DPS publications and I'm trying to wrap my head around what are these different parts and how to use them.

  I think I have a good handle on the Sections, they are best used for newspapers with DPS. Filters are probably better if your publication is published in several languages, based on my research.

  But I'm really fuzzy on what are tags and how to use them better. A reader can search by tags, or tap on one and see all items with the same tag used? I guess hope for us, that's our client we could give a few tags that we associate with each item - whether the subject of the article, or if the article has "bonus content" not available in the printed version, etc. - and users can type to see all of the items associated with a specific tag. I'd love to hear/see examples of a publication using tags, so we can show our customers how we use them.

  Thanks for any help you can provide!

  Kristina

  If you specify the text of the tags, this text appears as signature or Description when article is displayed in navigation mode, but it has no other effect like search or filtering.

• 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

• Consolidation and failover for the uplink on the Distributed switch port group

  Hello

  I have a problem with the implementation of a distributed switch, and I don't know I'm missing something!

  I have a few guests with 4 of each physical cards. On the host eash I configured 2 virtual switches (say A and B), with 2 physical network by vSwitch using etherchannel adapter. Everything works fine for etherchannel and route based on the hash of the IP for the latter.

  Recently, I decided to create two distributed switches and move the respective physical ports of virtual switches to this distributed switches. Once again, I want to configure etherchannel and route based on the hash of the IP. But when I open the settings for the uplink port group, aggregation and failover policies are grayed out and cannot be changed. Apparently they inherit configuration also but I don't know where!

  Chantal says:

  Once again, I want to configure etherchannel and route based on the hash of the IP. But when I open the settings for the uplink port group, aggregation and failover policies are grayed out and cannot be changed. Apparently they inherit configuration also but I don't know where!

  You must set the card NIC teaming policy on trade in reality and not on the uplink group more expected.

• 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.

  Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone

• 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.

• iSCSI and distributed switches

  This could be a long post, but I did not ' have much time so will now start on it and Add.

  I am trying to install two vswitches distributed with ports vmkernel on each and link them to two physical cards on their own subnets connected to an iSCSI device that has two interfaces.

  I do all this in my lab ESXi nested under fusion using OpenFiler as the iSCSI device.

  I currently have two hosts, I have a cluster with vcenter server and openfiler iSCSI shared storage that works perfectly.  All comms management are on the subnet of the network management including iSCSI.

  I then created two networks more molten vmnet4 and vmnet 5, added 2 network I / f on each host and openfiler.

  Then created two dvswitches and vmkernel ports added to each and vmnic connected to iSCSI networks.

  What are hosts autodeply btw, so I then updated my host from my hosts of reference profiles and applied to the other host (I have a couple more autodeploy of hosts also although I use for practice in collaboration with autodeplay and everything works well) rebooted everything and the dvswitches are soft, pings all good work.

  Now comes the problem.  I can add these vmk/portgroup/vmnic for vmhba33 iSCSI software initiattor...  I can't enable iSCSI on the vmkernels in the vds or as it is grayed out.  When I try and add them to the adapter vmhba33 I get the message:

  The selected physical network adapter is not associated with VMkernel consistent teaming and political failver. VMkernel NIC must have exactly a link active and no rising shall be eligible to bind to the iSCSI HBA.

  so, I have attached a picture of this.  When I watch the vmkernel ports, iSCSI is greyed out.

  Basically, I'm trying this for is better acquainted with dvs and thought to deploy dvs and assign to the many guests would be the fastest way to implement an iSCSI for many guests esxi autodeployed network.

  The curious bit is that the görüş and vmkernel port adapter not listed FRO the dvs on vmnic 2 and 3 networks that are my iSCSI.  There are ports of the vmk in a portgroup with the name and the port group.

  I stuffed the properties I can find, and each button and the disturbingling, a lot of things is grayed out.

  I am stop for tonight and hope that someone can tell me first if what I'm doing is really possible and I do not do something stupid... and on the other hand, if someone can tell me the correct downwards path as I seem to have gone astray.

  Thank you

  Bill

  You can retrace your steps using this procedure to see if you have missed the steps;

  http://thefoglite.com/2012/06/14/configure-software-iSCSI-port-binding-on-a-VDS-with-dvPorts/

• 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

• 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/

• 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.