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If you have more than one physical NIC you can do this migration without downtime and the high level steps are:

1) remove one of your physical NIC from your vDS;

2) create a new standard vSwitch with the physical NIC that you removed on previous step;

3) migrate your VMkernel interfaces from vDS to vSS;

4) create port groups with respective VLAN on vSS;

5) migrate your virtual machine networks from vDS to vSS;

6) remove the remaining physical NICs from your vDS and add to you vSS;

7) remove your host from vDS.

The following blog post illustrate some of steps that I have described: virtuallyPeculiar: Migrate Networking From Distributed Switch To Standard Switch

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Richardson Porto
Senior Infrastructure Specialist
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