In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
Creating a vSphere Standard Switch
Deleting a vSphere Standard Switch
Creating a VMkernel interface on a standard vSwitch
Deleting a port group from a standard vSwitch
Adding an uplink to a standard vSwitch
Creating a vSphere Distributed Switch
Creating a distributed port group
Adding hosts to a vSphere Distributed Switch
Migrating a virtual machine network from a vSphere Standard Switch to a vSphere Distributed Switch
Mapping a physical adapter (vmnic) to a dvUplink
Configuring security, traffic shaping, teaming and failover on a vSwitch and a VDS
Migrating VMkernel interfaces between a standard vSwitch and a VDS
Creating additional VMkernel interfaces on a VDS
Creating a backup of a VDS
Restoring a VDS configuration
Importing a VDS into the data center from a backup
Creating Network Resource Pools on a VDS
Enabling port mirroring on a VDS
Enabling NetFlow on a VDS
Configuring private VLANs on a VDS