VLAN configuration

[JohnnyBravo]

I am looking to place some VMs in a VLAN configured by my network admin. Networking really isnt my bag and I was under the assumption that I just need to configure a VM portgroup on my vSwitch which has the VLAN ID? So for VLAN 219 I need to specfy this on that portgroup and attach the vnic of the particular VMs?

My network admin tells me that some work needs to be done on the pnic.

I need to say yes it does and know what it is or no it doesnt it just needs to be done on the vswitch.

Can someone please help?

Thanks

[IanTech]

Hi,

What make of switch are you connecting your hosts too?

Cheers,

[JohnnyBravo]

They are Cisco switches (6109 I think)

[jkumhar75]

No need to do any changes on the pNIC.

The network admin should enable the trunk on the switch port, where the the pNIC's are connected. This will pass-through the traffic of all the VLAN's.

MCSE,VCP 310,VCP 410.

[JohnnyBravo]

Cool, Thanks for clearing that up. I was 90% sure that that was the case but my lack of interest and knowledge on the networking side made me doubt myself.

Time to dig out some network books i think

[jkumhar75 · Accepted solution]

If this clear's your doubt, then can you mark this question as answered?

MCSE, VCP 310,VCP 410.