Single VLAN between VMWARE Virtual switch and Physical switch ?

[ZahidHaseeb1978]

My questions from above infrastructure:

I want to create a single VLAN with following ports.

Port1 of Vswitch from VM-1

Port1 of Vswitch from VM-2

Port1, Port2, Port3 of physical switch

is it possible ?

[vmroyale]

Note: Discussion successfully moved from VMware ESXi 5 to VMware vSphere™ vNetwork

[Texiwill]

Hello,

For DVS/VSS:

You need to trunk the VLAN directly into the virtual switch, this is called Virtual Switch Tagging. In effect, trunk the appropriate VLANs to the external switch port and then create a Portgroup on the vSwitch with the appropriate VLAN ID. Connect the VM to the appropriate Portgroup. Note, that the pNIC is just an uplink device is not involved.

External Switch Port (VLAN Trunk) <-> pNIC <-> vSwitch <-> PG (VLAN ID X) <-> VM for VLAN ID X

For Nexus 1000V

You need to trunk the VLAN to the Nexus 1000V.

Best regards,
Edward L. Haletky
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