vmware distributed switch

[voitsykh]

I have two hosts ESXi 5.5 и vcenter 6.0

On vcenter 6.0 I created distributed switch 5.5 and added one of the host. Where thing work fine. But, for example, I want migrate back from vdswitch to standard vmware switch. I tried to do this - but no resalts. vCenter rollback me to vdswitch. How correct do back migration?

[EGueniffey]

The Vcenter roolback because if you migrate to vswitch you will lose your admin portgroup.

To do what you want, your admin portgroup in your dvswitch must have 2 uplink in teaming, then you can migrate one of these uplink to you vswitch.

[voitsykh]

Can you explaine more detail?

I have host with to network adapter in teeam

and have standard switch? How can I do migarion?

[rcporto]

Remove one physical network adapter (vmnic) from the distributed switch uplink and add to the standard switch... this procedure can be done without problem, since do you have two vmnics on distributed switch.

After move the vmnic to the sandard switch, you can migrate the VMkernel interface and your virtual machines back to the standard switch.

[EGueniffey · Accepted solution]

Your dvSwitch configuration should look like the one above

In Web Client select into the Inventory List select Distributed switch, Select your dvSwitch, in Manage Tab select Topology.

Select your Admin  PortGroup and click on Edit the PortGroup

   

Select Teaming and failover

   

Push the unused or Standby uplink to active uplink to activate the teaming.

Validate all .

Once it is done you can then migrate one of the uplink into your standard vswitch

[voitsykh]

thanks a lot! I understand,

I have this situation:

esxi host was connected by two 1Gb network adapters  to cisco svitch and I configured link aggrigation from cisco, so at vdswitch I put Route Bace on IP HASH on load balancing, so I coundnt migrate.

One more question. Best practice.

Make Route Bace on IP HASH and link aggreation. If I do like this I will have more then 1Gb to the host. Am I right?

or

Route based on oridinal virtual port and nothing speshial on cisco switch?  What about spped on this situation? How will work nics?

[SureshKumarMuth]

You may have to break the etherchannel and ip hash to remove one nic from the dvs else you may end up in losing the connectivity.

Once you migrate all networks to standard switch you can check how to enable ip has again with link aggregation configured

Regards,

Suresh

[voitsykh]

I made like you wrote

One more question.

I create dswitch. By default it has 4 uplinks and 8 links to virtual mashins. These quota only for one host (all host which I put in this switch will have 4 uplinks and 8 links to virtual mashins) or to all hosts?

For examle I have 6 esxi hosts (4 fusical link on each) and 35 virtual mashins.

[SureshKumarMuth]

Dvswitch is like a template, whichever the host connected will have same configuration.