After adding all ESXi hosts to the cluster, create a vSphere Distributed Switch to handle the SDDC traffic. You also create port groups to prepare your environment to migrate the vCenter Server instance to the distributed switch.
Procedure
- Log in to vCenter Server by using the vSphere Web Client.
- Create the vSphere Distributed Switch.
- In the Navigator, click Networking and expand the nyc01r01vc01.rainpole.local tree.
- Right-click the nyc01-r01dc data center, and select to start the New Distributed Switch wizard.
- On the Name and location page, enter nyc01-r01-vds01 as the name and click Next.
- On the Select version page, ensure the Distributed switch: 6.5.0 radio button is selected and click Next.
- 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
- On the Ready to complete page, review your entries and click Finish.
- Edit the settings of the distributed switch.
- Right-click the nyc01-r01-vds01 distributed switch and select .
- Click the Advanced tab.
- Enter 9000 as MTU (Bytes) value and click OK.
- Create port groups in the distributed switch for the management traffic types.
- Change the port groups to use the Route Based on Physical NIC Load teaming algorithm.
- Right-click the nyc01-r01-vds01 distributed switch and select .
- On the Select port group policies page, select Teaming and failover and click Next.
- Click the nyc01-r01-vds01-uplink01 and nyc01-r01-vds01-uplink02, click OK, and click Next. button, add all port groups except
- On the Teaming and failover page, select Route based on physical NIC load from the Load balancing drop-down menu and click Next.
- Click Finish.
- Configure the uplinks for the nyc01-r01-vds01-uplink01 and nyc01-r01-vds01-uplink02 port groups.
- Right click the nyc01-r01-vds01-uplink01 port group and click Edit Settings.
- Select Teaming and Failover.
- Move Uplink2 to Unused uplinks and click OK.
- Right click the nyc01-r01-vds01-uplink02 port group and click Edit Settings.
- Select Teaming and Failover.
- Move Uplink1 to Unused uplinks and click OK.
- Connect the ESXi host, nyc01r01esx01.rainpole.local, to the nyc01-r01-vds01 distributed switch by migrating its VMkernel network adapters.
- Right-click the nyc01-r01-vds01 distributed switch and click Add and Manage Hosts.
- On the Select task page, select Add hosts and click Next.
- On the Select hosts page, click New hosts.
- In the Select new hosts dialog box, select nyc01r01esx01.rainpole.local and click OK.
- On the Select hosts page, click Next.
- On the Select network adapter tasks page, ensure that Manage physical adapters and Manage VMkernel adapters check boxes are selected and click Next.
- On the Manage physical network adapters page, click vmnic1 and click Assign uplink.
- In the Select an Uplink for vmnic1 dialog box, click Uplink2 and click OK.
- On the Manage physical network adapters page, click Next.
- Configure the VMkernel network adapters.
- On the Manage VMkernel network adapters page, select vmk0 and click Assign port group.
- Select nyc01-r01-vds01-management and click OK.
- On the Manage VMkernel network adapters page, click On this switch and click New adapter.
- On the Add Networking page, click Select an existing network, select the nyc01-r01-vds01-vsan port group, click OK, and click Next.
- On the Port properties page, select the vSAN check box and click Next.
- On the IPv4 settings page, select Use static IPv4 settings, enter IP address 172.18.13.101, enter subnet 255.255.255.0, and click Next.
- Click Finish.
- On the Analyze impact page, click Next.
- On the Ready to complete page, review your entries and click Finish.
- Create the vMotion VMkernel adapter.
- In the Navigator, click Host and Clusters and expand the nyc01r01vc01.rainpole.local tree.
- Click nyc01r01esx01.rainpole.local.
- Click the Configure tab and select VMkernel adapters.
- Click the Add host networking icon, select VMkernel Network Adapter, and click Next.
- On the Add Networking page, click Select an existing network, select the nyc01-r01-vds01-vmotion port group, click OK, and click Next.
- On the Port properties page, select vMotion from the TCP/IP Stack drop-down menu and click Next.
- On the IPv4 settings page, select Use static IPv4 settings, enter IP address 172.18.12.101, enter subnet 255.255.255.0, and click Next.
- On the Ready to complete page, review the configuration and click Finish.
- Configure the MTU on the vMotion VMkernel adapter.
- Select the vMotion VMkernel adapter created in the previous step and click Edit Settings.
- Click the NIC Settings page.
- Enter 9000 for the MTU value and click OK.
- Configure the vMotion TCP/IP stack.
- Migrate the vCenter Server instance from the standard switch to the distributed switch.
- Define Network I/O Control shares for the different traffic types on the distributed switch.
- Migrate the last physical adapter from the standard switch to the distributed switch.
- In the Navigator, click Networking and expand the nyc01r01vc01.rainpole.local tree.
- Right-click the nyc01-r01-vds01 distributed switch and select Add and Manage Hosts.
- On the Select task page, select Manage host networking and click Next.
- On the Select hosts page, click Attached hosts.
- In the Select member hosts dialog box, select nyc01r01esx01.rainpole.local, click OK, and click Next.
- On the Select network adapter tasks page, select Manage physical adapters only and click Next.
- On the Manage physical network adapters page, select vmnic0 and click Assign uplink.
- In the Select an Uplink for vmnic0 dialog box, select Uplink1, click OK, and click Next.
- On the Analyze Impact page, click Next.
- On the Ready to complete page, click Finish.
- Enable vSphere Distributed Switch Health Check.
- In the Navigator, click Networking and expand the nyc01r01vc01.rainpole.local tree.
- Select the nyc01-r01-vds01 distributed switch and click the Configure tab.
- In the Navigator, select Health check and click the Edit button.
- Select Enabled for VLAN and MTU and Teaming and failover and click OK.
- Delete the vSphere Standard Switch.
- In the Navigator, click Hosts and Clusters and expand the nyc01r01vc01.rainpole.local tree.
- Click nyc01r01esx01.rainpole.local and then click the Configure tab.
- On the Configure page, select Virtual switches, select vSwitch0, and click the Remove selected standard switch icon.
- In the Remove Standard Switch dialog box, click Yes to confirm the removal.