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VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Abhilash G B, Cedric Rajendran
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VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Abhilash G B, Cedric Rajendran

Overview of this book

VMware vSphere is a complete and robust virtualization product suite that helps transform data centers into simplified on-premises cloud infrastructures, providing for the automation and orchestration of workload deployment and life cycle management of the infrastructure. This book focuses on the latest release of VMware vSphere and follows a recipe-based approach, giving you hands-on instructions required to deploy and manage a vSphere environment. The book starts with the procedures involved in upgrading your existing vSphere infrastructure to vSphere 6.5, followed by deploying a new vSphere 6.5 environment. Then the book delves further into the procedures involved in managing storage and network access to the ESXi hosts and the virtual machines running on them. Moving on, the book covers high availability and fair distribution/utilization of clustered compute and storage resources. Finally, the book covers patching and upgrading the vSphere infrastructure using VUM, certificate management using VMCA, and finishes with a chapter covering the tools that can be used to monitor the performance of a vSphere infrastructure.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Creating a vSphere Distributed port group

A Distributed Port Group (dvPortGroup) can only be created from the vCenter Server. Every dvPortGroup created has a default of 8 available ports. Port allocation is elastic, which means that the port count will automatically increase or decrease as needed.

How to do it...

The following procedure will help you create a dvPortGroup:

  1. Bring up the Networking inventory using the vSphere Web Client by using the key combination Ctrl + Alt + 5.
  2. Right-click on the dvSwitch you intend to create the port group on and navigate to Distributed Port Group | New Distributed Port Group...:
  1. On the New Distributed Port Group screen, supply a name for the port group and click Next to continue:
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