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VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook

By : Abhilash G B
Book Image

VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook

By: Abhilash G B

Overview of this book

Amidst all the recent competition from Citrix and Microsoft, VMware's vSphere product line is still the most feature rich and futuristic product in the virtualization industry. Knowing how to install and configure vSphere components is important to give yourself a head start towards virtualization using VMware. If you want to quickly grasp the installation and configuration procedures, especially by using the new vSphere 5.1 web client, this book is for you.VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook will take you through all the steps required to accomplish a task with minimal reading required. Most of the tasks are accompanied with relevant screenshots with an intention to provide a visual guidance as well.The book has many useful recipes that will help you progress through the installation of VMware ESXi 5.1 and vCenter Server 5.1. You will learn to use Auto Deploy and Image Profiles to deploy stateless/stateful ESXi servers, configure failover protection for virtual machines using vSphere HA, configure automated load balancing using vSphere DRS and DPM. Finally, the book guides you through upgrading or patching ESXi servers using VMware Update Manager and also deploying and configuring vSphere Management Assistant (VMA) to be able to run scripts to manage the ESXi servers.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Migrating virtual machine network from vSphere Standard Switch to vSphere Distributed Switch


You can migrate virtual machine networking to a DSwitch. But before you do that, make sure that the DSwitch has an uplink that supports the virtual machine's traffic. Refer to the Mapping a physical adapter (vmnic) to a dvUplink recipe for instructions on how to do this.

How to do it...

The following procedure explains how to migrate Virtual Machine networking to a DSwitch:

  1. Right-click on the datacenter which has the DSwitch created, and click on the Migrate VM to Another Network menu item:

  2. In the Migrate Virtual Machine Networking wizard, in the Source network section, click on Browse... to bring up the Select Network window:

  3. In the Select Network window, highlight the port group on the standard vSwitch to which the VMs are mapped, and click on OK:

  4. In the Destination network section, click on Browse... to bring up the Select Network window, and select the dvPortGroup.

  5. With both source and destination...