In this video presentation which is part of the Hancock’s VMware Half Hour HOW TO Video Series I will show you HOW TO: Create a VMware vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) for use with VMware vSphere vSAN for the VMware vSphere vSAN Cluster.
VMware vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) provides a centralized interface from which you can configure, monitor and administer virtual machine access switching for the entire data center. The VDS provides:
- Simplified virtual machine network configuration
- Enhanced network monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities
- Support for advanced VMware vSphere networking features
As my 10GBe switch in this VMware vSphere Lab has LACP functionality I have decided to demonstrate how we configure the vDS for a LACP LAG. Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) is one elements of an IEEE specification (802.3ad) that provides guidance on the practice of link aggregation for data connections, it’s used on trunks or port channels, to bond two ethernet ports together. It is only supported using a VMware vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) , it is not supported on a VMware vSphere Standard Switch (VSS).
This video covers the following
- Creation of the VMware vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS).
- Creation of Portgroups with vLANs for Management, vMotion and vSAN.
- Creation of the LACP LAG.
- Adding vDS to hosts in the vSphere Cluster.
- Migration of existing VMKernel portgroups from VSS to VDS.
- Testing the VMware vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS).
If you are creating a design for VMware vSphere vSAN for a Production environment, please ensure you read the VMware Cloud Foundation Design Guide 01 JUN 2023 – this should be regarded as The Bible!
