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VMware vSphere 5.5 Cookbook

By : Abhilash G B
Book Image

VMware vSphere 5.5 Cookbook

By: Abhilash G B

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
VMware vSphere 5.5 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 6. Configuring vSphere Networking

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