Part 1: Getting Starting with the VMware vSphere Distributed Switch

welcome to our two-part demonstration on getting started with vmware vsphere distributed switch or VDS in part one we cover the steps involved in creating a vSphere distributed switch and in part two we cover migrating the hosts in the vm networking traffic to the vSphere distributed switch we begin by logging into the vSphere web client and navigating to the networking section we go into the VMware data center and then choose new distributed switch assign a name and choose the version of distributed switch you wish to deploy we will use the 5.5 version for this demo to find the number of up links we set them to be for we will leave Network IO control enabled and uncheck create a default port group click finish and we now see our new distributed switch notice that we have a default network on our standard switch we have no distributed poor troops and we have one uplink configuration that was set when the distributed switch was created let's create a new distributed port group click on the Newport group icon assign a name vMotion and select the distributed switch change the binding to ephemeral the VLAN type and specify the ID check the box to specify additional details and click Next we retain the defaults for security and traffic shaping and proceed to teaming and failover we change load balancing to route based on physical NIC load we retain the default configuration for the rest and click finish the vMotion port group has been created next we need to create our management pork group right-click on the distributed switch and click on new distributed pork group assign a name to it we'll use static port binding which ensures our management switch ports are statically assigned configure the VLAN details and check the box to customize policy configuration here as well we retain the defaults for security and traffic shaping and select route based on physical NIC load for load balancing we take the default for the remaining settings and click finish we will repeat this process a few more times to create our storage port group and then similarly we will create our VM traffic port group you our last port group is the VM net port group you with that we have our distributed switch created with all of our pork groups this concludes part one of the two-part video demonstration a vSphere distributed switch continue with part two which covers migrating the hosts in the VM network traffic to VDS

Channel: VMware

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Keywords: vmware, VDS, vSphere Distributed Switch, SDN, Software Defined Networking, vSphere, vNetwork Distributed Switch, VMware Switch, vSphere Switch, getting started

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Length: 3min 39sec (219 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 27 2014