VMware vSphere 5.5 Cookbook

Chapter 6. Configuring vSphere Networking

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Creating a vSphere Standard Switch
• Deleting a vSphere Standard Switch
• Creating a VMkernel interface on a standard vSwitch
• Deleting a port group from a standard vSwitch
• Adding an uplink to a standard vSwitch
• Creating a vSphere Distributed Switch
• Creating a distributed port group
• Adding hosts to a vSphere Distributed Switch
• Migrating a virtual machine network from a vSphere Standard Switch to a vSphere Distributed Switch
• Mapping a physical adapter (vmnic) to a dvUplink
• Configuring security, traffic shaping, teaming and failover on a vSwitch and a VDS
• Migrating VMkernel interfaces between a standard vSwitch and a VDS
• Creating additional VMkernel interfaces on a VDS ...