Create a dedicated vSphere Distributed Switch for infrastructure networks and another one for the SR-IOV traffic if needed.

The compute cluster also hosts the tenant networks that are handled by VDS Standard and Enhanced switches in NSX. During configuration, NSX automatically creates the objects for the VDS switches on each host from the cluster.

For the steps to configure NSX and the corresponding VDS switches, see Deploying NSX.

Procedure

  1. Create a distributed switch named TCP_COMP_INFRA_VDS to use as the infrastructure vSphere Distributed Switch.
  2. Add two uplinks to the infrastructure vSphere Distributed Switch.
  3. Add hosts ESXi_COMP_01 through ESXi_COMP_03 to TCP_COMP_INFRA_VDS.
  4. Connect two physical Ethernet ports from each ESXi host to the uplink ports on TCP_COMP_INFRA_VDS.
  5. Configure Infrastructure networking.
    1. Create the following port groups on the distributed switch TCP_COMP_INFRA_VDS:

      Port Group

      VLAN ID

      ESXi Management

      100

      vMotion Network

      200

      vSAN Network

      300

      VM Management Network

      10
    2. Migrate the management VMkernel adapter of each host to the ESXi Management port group.
    3. Create VMkernel adapters on each host for the rest of the infrastructure traffic types.

      • Set the traffic type of each adapter to an infrastructure traffic type. For example, vMotion traffic and vSAN traffic.

      • Associate each adapter with a dedicated port group. For example, associate the vMotion adapter with the vMotion port group.

  6. (Optional) (Optional) If you want to configure the SR-IOV network with a port group, create an extra vSphere Distributed Switch with one port group.

    Port Group

    VLAN ID

    SR-IOV Network

    <N>

    N: Any VLAN

    For more information, see Enable SR-IOV on a Host Physical Adapter and SR-IOV Support.

  7. Verify that you can log in to TCP_COMP_VC and that all the ESXi hosts are in the Connected state.

What to do next

After configuring the vSphere distributed switch in the compute cluster, verify the following.

  1. One Distributed virtual switch is visible in each ESXi host in the compute cluster.

    Note:

    VDS switches can be seen after NSX is configured.

  2. Two Ethernet ports of the ESXi host are connected to uplink ports for TCP_COMP_MGMT_VDS.

  3. Two or more Ethernet ports are available for VDS Standard or Enhanced Switch.

  4. ESXi hosts are in the Connected state after migrating the VMK0 from vSS to vDS.

  5. VMkernel adapters are created for each ESXi host and the traffic services are enabled.