Login into vCenter, Click on the desired hostname or IP address, then navigate to Configure > Networking > Virtual Switches and press Add Networking. The process is slightly different, but it achieves the same result as the direct configuration via ESXi host. Delete vSwitch using ESXi host WebGUI Create Standard Switch using vCenter host WebGUIĪnother available option is to perform configuration via vCenter. Click on Networking > Virtual switches > select row with vSwitch1 > click on Actions > Remove. Let’s now remove the new vSwitch, so we can create it with vCenter. Select the correct interface opposite the “Uplink 2” label. To add the second uplink, click on vSwitch1 and then click on the Add uplink button. vSwitch Configuration via Direct ESXi Host InterfaceĪs shown in the screenshot, only a single uplink can be selected when creating a new vSwitch. Press Add standard virtual switch button and type-in switch name and optionally change any of the default settings. Click on Networking and then on the Virtual switches tab. Create Standard Switch using ESXi host WebGUI
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This section will show how to create switch using direct connection first, and then how to do it via vCenter. However, it is possible to perform configuration using vCenter too. Standard switches can be configured directly via the host, as their settings are self-contained within a single host. Prompted, restart management network and management connectivity will be Refer to Figure 5 which shows relevant menu screenshots. Host will be lost, as we expect VLAN 4 to be untagged. Once this configuration is applied the connectivity to the To reflect port-groups VLANs for a specific switch. Switches will be following the same pattern with allowed VLAN list will change The configuration on the switch will be similar to the listing below: interface TenGigabitEthernet1/0/1 This will let us introduce additional VLANs for port groups on this switch in the following sections. Let’s now change upstream switch configuration for the port, so frames are now tagged. Restore vDS (Virtual Distributed Switch) clones settings to a new management port keeping it within vDS. Restore Standard Switch helps you with moving management interface to a Standard Switch when VMKernel port is currently on a Distributed Switch that is not operating as expected. The next two options deal with management connectivity to ESXi host when distributed switch is used. It removes vSwitches, port groups, VMKernelĪdapters that you might have created and also impacts virtual machineĬonnectivity, so use this option only when you cannot fix the network Restore Network Settings resets all network As shown in the screenshot below, there are 3 available options: Figure 7. The last network-related menu is Network Restore Options. ESXi Console Restart and Test Management Network ESXi Console Management Network Configuration OptionsĪfter changing any of the settings above, restart the management network to activate the changes using the menu shown in Figure 6, and perform optional testing. As we don’t tag frames from the switch side, VLAN is left as unspecified.ĭNS Configuration includes DNS server IPs, as well as ESXi host’s name. VLAN and IPv4 Configuration settings are applied to the VMKernel ports and their group. Network Adapters menu allows you to select physical NICs that will be used as uplinks for the default standard switch containing management port. The next screenshot displays the Configure Management Network menu’s options and dialog windows. Figure 4 shows available options available after the login. Press F2 on the initial screen and type in the username and password. The main use case for this method of access is the initial setup or management access troubleshooting. The console is accessed by connecting a monitor and keyboard to ESXi host or by using out-of-band vendor-specific management options provided by the server, such as HP ILO or DELL DRAC. There is a limited number of things you can do with the network configuration via DCUI. Target-state topology Console Configuration (DCUI) The end state that we will achieve as the result of configuration steps in this article is shown in Figure 3. Starting topologyĪt this stage, the ESXi host has a single virtual switch, a single VM port group for virtual machines and a single VMKernel port for management. We will change this port to tag traffic in the next section. It is set up as an access port in VLAN 4, meaning that there will be no 802.1q tagged frames crossing this interface. Figure 2 shows the switch port configuration. Let’s assume that we’ve connected physical cables and enabled only a single port on the upstream switch. The starting topology is a newly installed ESXi host with 6 physical adapters.