vCD 5.1 - allocating a vSphere port group to an Org?

[Slingsh0t]

I thought this would be easy (I distinctly remember this was a simple part of vCloud Director 1.5.x) but it doesn't seem to be so simple:

How can I present a vSphere port group to an Organisation's vDC and then configure VMs to connect to said port group?!

All I seem to be able to do on the Org vDC's is create external networks or internal networks and the internal network option doesn't seem to allow me to put any VMs/vApps onto the network.

Could someone please do me a massive favour and outline the exact steps from putting a port group into a network pool through to actually putting a VM nic onto the same port group in vCloud Director?

Note: I have read the documentation and trawled the internet and so far found lots of information about what network pools are and the concepts around them but nothing specifically for what I'm after.

[jedempsey]

Slingshot,

from my experience, if you create the network pool backing of portgroup type, using the desired portgroup, you can then toggle the pool used for your OrgvDC network creation, on the "Network Pools and Services" tab, to that portgroup backed pool, then create your Org network. it will use that portgroup. you can toggle it back to your vcdni or vxlan pool after. i agree, it was easire prior to 5.1. i have used this method to extend legacy L2 networks into private cloud environments, when licensing costs are prohibitive to virtualizing the workload..(Oracle...lol). Cool thing is..... an nTier architecture, using hybrid cloud/physical network design...and now we can use the vCloud security stack to do it.