How to move Management Network from NSX vDS to Standard Switch

[saurabhheda]

Hello Everyone,

I am trying to move VM Network and Management Network from NSX VDS to vSwitch. Problem is i only have one vmnic or uplinkwhich is connected to NSX VDS as of now.

Can i simply remove this uplink from VDS and attach it to vSwitch?

esxcfg-vswitch -Q vmnic -V dvPort_ID_of_vmnic dvSwitch

esxcli network vswitch standard uplink add --uplink-name=vmnic --vswitch-name=vSwitch

Or is there any better way to achieve the above task? I am using ESXi 6.0 & vCenter Server 6.5

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Saurabh

[sushilkm]

We did some thing similar due to a issue with L2 bridge on NSX but we moved it to Distributed pot groups instead of standard switch.  Just edit the VM properties, choose the corresponding port group and it will work as usual.

Ensure that respective VLAN is allowed on trunk port.

[HassanAlKak88]

Hello,

Noting that with NSX vmkernel ports for vmotion, management, storage, etc work on a standard switch, even Edge gateways can connect to standard switch port groups.

But for NSX you need at least one DVS to create your transport zone on, and to send layer 2 traffic over layer 3.

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[saurabhheda]

I am looking to move Management network and not VM network.

-Saurabh

[saurabhheda]

Mine is a Test environment and we are just testing NSX as of now, and we are planning to reconfigure NSX from scratch and that is the reason i want to move everything to standard Switch.

My steps are correct?

Thanks,

Saurabh