mbartle
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VCSA on vDS - Ephemeral Port Binding Question

I an in the process of migrating hosts to a vDS.  I have done some reading and it suggests to keep an ephemeral port group on the same vLAN that my vCenter runs on, in case of emergency.  My understanding is I could login to the ESXi hosts and add VMs to this network to help get things back up and running.

What I don't understand is :

1: Can I migrate the VCSA directly to the vDS port group or should I move it to the ephemeral one ?

2: Is the ephemeral port group to be used only in emergency or should the VCSA reside there permanent ?

I have not had a single problem migrating VMKernel and VM workloads to the vDS so far. Some folks seemed to lose connectivity to the VCSA once migrating from VSS to VDS so I dug a bit deeper and found the ephemeral port group option.

Thanks.

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