hamidja
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How to assign uplinks to portgroup in vds diffrently in host by host?

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I have a VDS on vCenter 6.7. After i captioned and assign uplinks to port groups now I need to assign some uplinks in some  host differently. I mean if I change uplink assignment from (vds->port group setting) it apply to all host but I want to do assignment for some specific host. How can I do it. I appreciate any advise

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Lalegre
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Hey @hamidja,

I got a little bit lost on your explanation as uplinks are assigned to the VDS level and the order of course can be changed to the portgroups however as you clearly said if you change the order for one portgroup it applied to all the ESXi.

Something that you can do is creating a second portgroup and applying a different order to that one that will affect all your hosts of course but depends on how you configure it. If this portgroup is for connecting VMs or VMkernel, the actual order wiill impact when those objects are created under the hosts you want.

However which is the use case for this and why do you have different configurations across hosts? Remember that you can also create more than one VDS or VSS if necessary.

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hamidja
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Hi Lalegre

Thank you. I have a VDS with some port groups using EST strategy. Uplinks assigned to port groups and 2 Uplinks assigned to management port group that is common vith VM production usage. Now i need to change my strategy to VST so one of my Uplinks use for a Vlaned port group and one of them for normal management. The question is:

  1. I cannot assign uplinks to just one of my host to a port group and keep them unchanged on other hosts. If I do it from VDS setting it apply on all hosts.
  2. How can I assign uplinks to port groups that has no vmkernel because you can not see port groups without vmkernel on host side?

Thank you

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Lalegre
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Hey @hamidja,}

First of all I recommend you to always use VST as it will be easier to administer by just configuring the Physical Switch ports in Trunk mode and allowing the required VLANs. Only use EST for an specific use case.

There is no way of assigning Uplinks individually to portgroups inside a single VDS as they are shared between all of them. What you can do is play with the Teaming and Failover policy order to get only one Uplink as active for the desired portgroups and the other one as unused.

However you are mentioning here that you have two uplinks only so following that practice will give you a single point of failure. If this is a lab then go ahead and change the policy but if not I recommend you to evaluate the recommendation mentioned above.

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@hamidja 

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@hamidja 

Moderator: Please do not start multiple threads on the same topic/issue/question. The duplicate you created today has been archived.

 


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