vmWare Infrastructure Network Change

[renegade34g]

Good afternoon all,

I inherited a mess where everything was designed on VLAN 1. ESXI hosts, PCs, Servers, security cameras, WiFi, everything! I've already moved everything except the server/ESXI infrastructure off of VLAN 1 onto their own respective VLANs. I was wondering if anyone has any steps or tips in doing something massive as this? My environment is only one vCenter, three ESXI hosts, SAN with iSCSI switches.

[NathanosBlightc]

In physical switch that hosts are connected to it, uut your ports in trunk mode.

Set exact of your VLANs (camera, servers, ...) in the VLAN ID settings of each respective Port Groups.

Set your VMKernel ports VLAN ID (Management, vMotion, iSCSI and so on) and create their equivalent VLANs in your physical switches for tagging in whole environment.

just as a suggestion, test for one host, review connectivity, then expand it in all virtual infrastructure

[Alex_Romeo]

Hi,

If you have management on VDS, I'd start with the Rollback to VSS:

Come fare il Rollback da Distribution Virtual Switch (VDS) a Virtual Standard Switch (VSS) – AleAdmi...

If all three hosts have the same release of vsphere, you can create a vss on a single host and apply the configuration to the other two via the "Host Profile" option:

Subsequently on a VDS you create many Port Groups to separate the various environments via VLanID.

Alessandro Romeo