Managing vDS

In the most part of this chapter, we will use the new vSphere Client in HTML5, but still, there is some functionality that has not been ported on it. You can find the details at https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/rn/vsphere-client-65-html5-functionality-support.html.

Unsupported functionality

To create a new distributed switch, using the vSphere Client, follow these steps:

  1. First, we will create a vDS in the networking inventory view (1). This specific inventory view is the logical container of vDS definition and configuration. Right-click on the datacenter (in this example, SDN_PRAHA) and from the contextual menu, ...

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