In this recipe, we will learn how to create vSphere's Distributed Switch on Cisco UCS.
Prepare a Cisco UCS 5108 Chassis with two UCS IOM 2208XP installed; each UCS IOM is connected to a Cisco UCS 6428UP and configured into two ports on each Cisco UCS 6428UP as Ethernet uplink ports connected to the upstream Ethernet LAN Switch by Fibre Channel cables. The UCS service profile (defined four vNIC1/2/3/4) has associated into the UCS Server and can boot up the OS successfully. The details are listed in the following diagram:
In this recipe, we will learn how to set up vDS on VMware vSphere Server.
We assume that the we have created a service profile ESXi5.5_Service_Profile
on Cisco UCS Manager, the details are in the following table:
vNIC # |
vNIC Name |
Fabric ID |
Enable Failover |
---|---|---|---|
vNIC1 |
vNIC_FIA_P17 |
A |
Disable |
vNIC2 |
vNIC_FIA_P18 |
A |
Disable |
vNIC3 |
vNIC_FIB_P17 |
B |
Disable |
vNIC4 |
vNIC_FIB_P18 ... |