Migrate Physical and Virtual NICs to a vSphere Distributed Switch

You can migrate both physical and virtual network adapters to a vSphere distributed switch simultaneously.

Prerequisites

Verify that you are connected to a vCenter Server system.

Procedure

1. Get the physical network adapters that you want to migrate.

   $pNics = Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VMHost $vmhost -Physical

2. Get the virtual network adapters that you want to migrate.

   $vNicManagement = Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VMHost $vmhost -Name vmk0
   $vNicvMotion = Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VMHost $vmhost -Name vmk1

3. Get the port groups corresponding to the virtual network adapters that you want to migrate to the vSphere distributed switch.

   $vdPortgroupManagement = Get-VDPortgroup -VDSwitch $vds -Name 'Management Network'
   $vdPortgroupvMotion = Get-VDPortgroup -VDSwitch $vds -Name 'vMotion Network'

4. Migrate all network adapters to the vSphere distributed switch.

   Add-VDSwitchPhysicalNetworkAdapter -DistributedSwitch $vds -VMHostPhysicalNic $pNics -VMHostVirtualNic $vNicManagement,$vNicvMotion -VirtualNicPortGroup $vdPortGroupManagement, $vdPortGroupvMotion

Results

You migrated the $vNicManagement network adapter to the Management Network port group and the $vNicvMotion network adapter to the vMotion Network port group.