After all ESXi hosts are added to the cluster, you create a vSphere Distributed Switch.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the Compute vCenter Server by using the vSphere Web Client.
    1. Open a Web browser and go to https://sfo01w01vc01.sfo01.rainpole.local/vsphere-client .
    2. Log in using the following credentials.

      Setting

      Value

      User name

      administrator@vsphere.local

      Password

      vsphere_admin_password

  2. Create a vSphere Distributed Switch for the shared edge and compute cluster.
    1. In the Navigator, click Networking and expand the sfo01w01vc01.sfo01.rainpole.local tree.
    2. Right-click the sfo01-w01dc data center and select Distributed Switch > New Distributed Switch to start the New Distributed Switch wizard .
    3. On the Name and location page, enter sfo01-w01-vds01 as the name and click Next.
    4. On the Select version page, ensure the Distributed switch version: 6.5.0 radio button is selected and click Next.
    5. On the Edit settings page, enter the following values and click Next.

      Setting

      Value

      Number of uplinks

      2

      Network I/O Control

      Enabled

      Create a default port group

      Deselected
    6. On the Ready to complete page, review your entries and click Finish.
  3. Edit the settings of the sfo01-w01-vds01 distributed switch.
    1. Right-click the sfo01-w01-vds01 distributed switch and select Settings > Edit Settings.
    2. Click the Advanced tab.
    3. Enter 9000 as MTU (Bytes) value and click OK.
  4. Create port groups in the sfo01-w01-vds01 distributed switch.
    1. Right-click the sfo01-w01-vds01 distributed switch, and select Distributed Port Group > New Distributed Port Group. 
    2. Create port groups with the following settings and click Next.

      Port Group Name

      Port Binding

      Port Allocation

      Number of Ports

      VLAN Type

      VLAN ID

      sfo01-w01-vds01-management

      Static binding

      Elastic

      8

      VLAN

      1631

      sfo01-w01-vds01-vmotion

      Static binding

      Elastic

      8

      VLAN

      1632

      sfo01-w01-vds01-vsan

      Static binding

      Elastic

      8

      VLAN

      1633

      sfo01-w01-vds01-nfs

      Static binding

      Elastic

      8

      VLAN

      1625

      sfo01-w01-vds01-uplink01

      Static binding

      Elastic

      8

      VLAN

      1635

      sfo01-w01-vds01-uplink02

      Static binding

      Elastic

      8

      VLAN

      2713

      Note:

      You create the VXLAN port group at a later time during the configuration of NSX Manager.

    3. On the Ready to complete page, review your entries and click Finish.
    4. Repeat this step for each port group.
  5. Change the Port Groups to use the Route Based on Physical NIC load teaming algorithm.
    1. Right-click the sfo01-w01-vds01 distributed switch and select Distributed Port Groups > Manage Distributed Port Groups.
    2. On the Select port group policies page, select the Teaming and failover check box and click Next.
    3. On the Select port groups page, click the Select distributed port groups button, add all port groups except sfo01-w01-vds01-uplink01 and sfo01-w01-vds01-uplink02, click OK, and click Next. 
    4. On the Teaming and failover page, select Route based on physical NIC load from the Load balancing drop-down menu and click Next.
    5. Click Finish.
  6. Configure the uplinks for the sfo01-w01-vds01-uplink01 and sfo01-w01-vds01-uplink02 port groups.
    1. Right click the sfo01-w01-vds01-uplink01 port group, and click Edit Settings.
    2. Select Teaming and Failover.
    3. Move Uplink2 to Unused uplinks and click OK.
    4. Right click the sfo01-w01-vds01-uplink02 port group, and click Edit Settings.
    5. Select Teaming and Failover.
    6. Move Uplink1 to Unused uplinks and click OK.
  7. Connect the ESXi host, sfo01w01esx01.sfo01.rainpole.local, to the sfo01-w01-vds01 distributed switch by migrating its VMkernel and virtual machine network adapters.
    1. Right-click the sfo01-w01-vds01 distributed switch, and click Add and Manage Hosts.
    2. On the Select task page, select Add hosts and click Next.
    3. On the Select hosts page, click New hosts.
    4. In the Select new hosts dialog box, select sfo01w01esx01.sfo01.rainpole.local, click OK, and click Next.
    5. On the Select network adapter tasks page, ensure both Manage physical adapters and Manage VMkernel adapters check boxes are selected and click Next.
    6. On the Manage physical network adapters page, click vmnic1, and click Assign uplink.
    7. In the Select an Uplink for vmnic1 dialog box, select Uplink2 and click OK.
    8. On the Manage physical network adapters page, click Next.
  8. Configure the VMkernel network adapters.
    1. On the Manage VMkernel network adapters page, click vmk0 and click Assign port group.
    2. Select sfo01-w01-vds01-management and click OK.
    3. On the Manage VMkernel network adapters page, click On this switch and click New adapter.
    4. On the Add Networking page, click Select and existing network, select the sfo01-w01-vds01-nfs port group, click OK, and click Next.
    5. Under Port properties click Next.
    6. Under IPv4 settings  select Use static IPv4 settings, enter the IP address 172.16.25.101 and the subnet 255.255.255.0, and click Finish.
    7. On the Manage VMkernel network adapters page, click Next.
    8. On the Analyze impact page, click Next.
    9. On the Ready to complete page, review your entries and click Finish.
  9. Create the vMotion VMkernel adapter.
    1. In the Navigator, click Host and Clusters and expand the sfo01w01vc01.sfo01.rainpole.local tree.
    2. Click sfo01w01esx01.sfo01.rainpole.local.
    3. Click the Configure tab then select VMkernel adapters.
    4. Click the Add host networking icon and select VMkernel Network Adapter and click Next.
    5. On the Select target device page, click Select an existing network, select the sfo01-w01-vds01-vmotion port group, click OK, and click Next.
    6. On the Port properties page, select vMotion from the TCP/IP stack drop-down menu and click Next.
    7. On the IPv4 settings page, select Use static IPv4 settings, enter the IP address 172.16.32.101, enter the subnet 255.255.255.0, and click Next.
    8. Click Finish.
  10. Configure the MTU on the vMotion VMkernel adapter.
    1. Select the vMotion VMkernel adapter created in the previous step, and click Edit Settings.
    2. Click the NIC settings page.
    3. Enter 9000 for the MTU value and click OK.
  11. Configure the vMotion TCP/IP stack.
    1. Under Networking , click TCP/IP configuration.
    2. Select vMotion and click the Edit TCP/IP stack configuration icon.
    3. Click Routing, enter 172.16.32.253 for the VMkernel gateway address, and click OK.
  12. Define Network I/O Control shares for the different traffic types on the sfo01-w01-vds01 distributed switch.
    1. In the Navigator, click Networking, and click the sfo01-w01dc data center.
    2. Click the sfo01-w01-vds01 distributed switch.
    3. Click the Configure tab, under Resource Allocation click System traffic.
    4. Under System Traffic, edit each of the following traffic types with the values from the table.

      Traffic Type

      Value

      vSAN Traffic

      High

      NFS Traffic

      Low

      vMotion Traffic

      Low

      vSphere Replication Traffic

      Low

      Management Traffic

      Normal

      vSphere Data Protection Backup Traffic

      Low

      Virtual Machine Traffic

      High

      Fault Tolerance Traffic

      Low

      iSCSI Traffic

      Low
  13. Migrate the last physical adapter from the standard switch to the sfo01-w01-vds01 distributed switch.
    1. In the Navigator, click Networking and expand the sfo01-w01dc data center.
    2. Right-click the sfo01-w01-vds01 distributed switch and select Add and Manage hosts.
    3. On the Select task page, select Manage host networking and click Next.
    4. On the Select hosts page, click Attached hosts.
    5. On the Select member hosts dialog box, select sfo01w01esx01.sfo01.rainpole.local and click OK.
    6. On the Select hosts page, click Next.
    7. On the Select network adapter tasks page, select Manage Physical adapters and click Next.
    8. On the Manage physical network adapters page, under sfo01w01esx01.sfo01.rainpole.local, select vmnic0, and click Assign uplink.
    9. In the Select an Uplink for vmnic0 dialog box, select Uplink 1, click OK, and click Next.
    10. On the Analyze Impact page, click Next.
    11. On the Ready to complete page, click Finish.
  14. Enable vSphere Distributed Switch Health Check.
    1. In the Navigator, click Networking and expand the sfo01-w01dc data center.
    2. Select the sfo01-w01-vds01 distributed switch and click the Configure tab.
    3. In the Navigator under Settings, select Health check and click the Edit button.
    4. Select Enabled for VLAN and MTU and Teaming and failover and click OK.
  15. Remove the vSphere Standard Switch.
    1. In the Navigator, click Hosts and Clusters and expand the sfo01w01vc01.sfo01.rainpole.local tree.
    2. Click sfo01w01esx01.sfo01.rainpole.local and click Configure.
    3. On the Configure page, select Virtual switches.
    4. On the Virtual switches page, select vSwitch0, and then click the Remove selected standard switch button.
    5. On the Remove Standard Switch dialog box , click Yes.