Change IP ESXi for vSAN host with VDS
I am doing a bit of network redesign in the home lab (a new post to come on that soon), for better manageability and security practices. With that being said,…
Tag: VDS
What is the vSphere Distributed Switch Health Check?
VMware vSphere networking can often be plagued by misconfigurations and other settings that can cause issues in your vSphere environment. Even though the vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) helps to eliminate…
How to Manage the NSX-T N-VDS Virtual Switch
NSX-T has a type of virtual switch that is different than the other types of virtual switches that have been used in vSphere previously. The NSX-T Virtual Distributed Switch (N-VDS)…
What is the VMware NSX-T Virtual Distributed Switch N-VDS Deployment and Migration
The virtual network switches in VMware vSphere are the component of the virtual infrastructure that performs the heavy lifting of getting packets im and out of the vSphere virtual environment.…
Configure Network I/O Control NIOC with vSAN vSphere Distributed Switch
Recently, in the home lab, I wanted to move to converged networking with vSphere Distributed Switch on my “production” vSAN cluster running my various home lab resources (nested, etc). Prior…
Create VMware vSphere Distributed Switch VDS for NSX Data Center
In deploying a VMware NSX environment, one of the first things that you will want to do is create vSphere Distributed Switches for the hosts in the environment to use…