Setting network configuration
One of the first things to be completed against a new ESXi installation is network configuration. Network configuration consists of several things on an ESXi host—first would be to configure the additional management interfaces of the host for VMotion, Fault Tolerance logging, vSphere Replication, and VSAN traffic.
Getting ready
To begin this recipe, you will need to open a PowerCLI window, connect to an ESXi host, and load a VMHost object into a variable. The example uses $esxihost as the variable for the VMHost object.
On installation, ESXi has a single Network Interface Card (NIC) labeled eth0 that is connected to a VMware Standard—vSwitch. The vSwitch has two port groups created: one labeled Management Network
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