I have an ESXi 6.0 cluster with 7 hosts. Due to some decisions made around storage networks, I have to add two vSwitches to each of the hosts so they can have access to a new storage network that was brought into our environment. I am new to managing advanced vmware features as I am just now taking over for an administrator that recently resigned.
So I I plan on adding the vSwitches to the hosts starting today but wont get to all of them before the end of the day. I will most likely get to one or two of them before the day is over. I don't plan to attach any of the new storage LUNs to the hosts or anything. All I plan on doing is getting their networking portion configured. So I will update the config on two of the hosts and walk away for the weekend, come back on Monday and start working on the remainder of the hosts.
Now my question is, is it a bad idea to do this? Am I leaving the cluster in bad state over in the weekend? My understanding is that if the vswitches exist but nothing is using it, they are not going to come into play at all hence nothing will be affected. Does that make sense?
