The following figure shows what your typical vDS should look like. We have a vCenter server where it is all a configured management plane. Completely create all VMkernel ports and VM port group. Very often it is a problem to understand what is uplink and what is vmnic. You must map vmnic to vDS uplink. Designation of vmnic starts from 0 and designation uplink starts from 1. The total typical example is vmnic0 is mapped to Uplink1:
A vDS architecture
Examples of vSS and vDS in the real world are as follows:
We can use CLI, which is very old but still good, esxcfg-vswitch –l; this CLI shows you both a virtual switch vSS and vDS, with a lot ...
