VMware vSphere Essentials: A Practical Approach to vSphere Deployment and Management

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L. PatrãoVMware vSphere Essentialshttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0208-9_15

15. Advanced Configuration with vSphere Distributed Switch

Luciano Patrão¹  

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Selfkant, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

 

15.1 Use VLANs in vSphere Distributed Switch

Since we cannot migrate our networks before we add VLANs, we will first add VLANs to our new vDS and port groups.

Note

Although this section applies only to environments that use VLANs, using VLANs is an important part of the vDS configuration, so I will discuss it here. You can skip this step if you are not using VLANs in your environment.

First, you need to add all VLANs at the vDS level. You do so on the Logical vDS port ...