Hello
I have a 2 Node ESX 4.0 Cluster within one Datacenter object in vCenter Client.
Both the ESX hosts have visibility to a common VMFS datastore over SAN.
I need to create a Distributed vSwitch which should contain one Virtual Machine Port group from each ESX Host so that all virtual machines that i intend to create in the future on the ESX Hosts are automatically placed on the dvSwitch.
Here's what i already have:
- A standard vSwitch with 2 NICs on ESX1.
- The vSwitch contains 1 Virtual Machine Port Group (above 2 NICs assigned).
- There are no virtual machines currently created on ESX1.
Here's what i do :
- I create a new dvSwitch with the default dvPortGroup.
- I add NIC1 from the host ESX1 to the dvSwitch using "Add Host" in vCenter Client.
- NIC2 is still a part of the Standard vSwitch on ESX1 (assigned to the Virtual Machine Port Group).
Question :
- I cannot migrate VM Networking onto the dvSwitch because there are no VMs yet. Then how do i create a Virtual Machine Port Group on the new dvSwitch from ESX1 so that all future VMs created on the host are automatically placed on the dvSwitch ? Or do i always have to manually assign the new ones to the dvSwitch ?
- Is it an absolute neccessity to already have atleast 1 VM running on a Standard vSwitch on the ESX server before i can migrate it to the dvSwitch in order to get the Virtual Machine Port Group created on the dvSwitch against the ESX Host ?
-- Nishesh
