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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

Adding an uplink to a vSphere Standard Switch


There can be situations where you would need to add additional uplinks (physical NICs) for a vSphere Standard Switch. Such an addition is generally done with the intention of enabling the use of teaming and load balancing features.

How to do it...

You can present the uplinks to the vSphere Standard Switch either by using the vSphere Web Client GUI or by using the esxcfg-vswitch command.

Using vSphere Web Client

The following procedure explains how to add an uplink to an existing vSwitch by using the vSphere Web Client:

  1. Select the ESXi host from the inventory, navigate to Manage | Networking | Virtual switches, and select the vSwitch to which you want to add an uplink (vmnic).

  2. With the vSwitch selected, click on the manage physical adapters icon:

  3. In the Manage Physical Network Adapters for vSwitch window, click on the green + icon to bring up the Add Physical Adapters to the Switch window:

  4. In the Add Physical Adapters to the Switch window, select the...