I'm testing migration of VMs from an older cluster of 6.5 hosts to a new cluster of 6.7 ESXi hosts. The environment is using a single distributed switch which currently is attached to all hosts, new and old. Once we stood up the new hosts, I added them to the distributed switch with no issues, but I only see 2 VMKernel port groups on each of the new hosts and not the Virtual Machine port groups, and therefore cannot ping other VMs on our production network.
I started with a dummy VM to test with which I powered off in the old host cluster, then migrated both compute resources and storage to the new hosts. The VM was successfully migrated (storage and compute resources), and I was able to change the network adapter to a new port group which is also using the production network, then I was able to power it back up normally (even though the new hosts have different types CPUs). When I spun up the OS, I could not ping it, though the network adapter shows as up on the VM and on the distributed switch in the Networking view in vCenter. When I go to the host topology view, it only shows the 2 VMkernel port groups for vMotion and management, none of the others on the distributed switch. I don't see any options to add VM Networking port groups to the host, only VMKernel port groups or physical NICs. What am I missing?
