Migrating from std switch to distributed switch.

[AnthonyChow]

I have 2 Dell T710 with 6 NIC cards.

I have configured on the 4 standard vSwitches.  Each Standard vSwitch is connected to a physical nic card.

I have one vSwitch to handle the management, one for vMotion, one for iSCSI and the other one for the VM's traffic.

The reason that I configured this is to put the vMotion, iSCSI on a different NIC and thus a different port on the physical port so as to gain the maximum throughtput.

Now when I wanted to configure a vDistributed switch.  I was reading this vmware document (http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere-vnetwork-ds-migration-configuration-wp.pdf) and it seems to be all VLAN based.  In the vDistributed switch, I create port group and then associate the port group to the dvUplink and the dvUplink will map to the physcial NIC on the host.

I don't seem to find an option to specify on the dvPortGroup if the port group is for vMotion, management and/or iSCSI traffic.

Am I missing something.

Can someone point me to some vDistributed switch best practice?

thanks for the information and have a Happy New Year,

anthony.

[AnthonyChow]

Oh, is it true that the vDistributed switch is only for the VMs?  The vmkernel still uses the stardard switch for communication?

[rickardnobel · Accepted solution]

atc wrote:

I don't seem to find an option to specify on the dvPortGroup if the port group is for vMotion, management and/or iSCSI traffic.

Am I missing something.

You will have to go to the host configuration tab, networking, distributed switch - then "virtual adapters" - this is the Vmkernel ports for the Distributed Switches.

[AnthonyChow]

thanks.