I’m reaching out to see if there are any ideas on how to best handle this situation I have found some knowledge base articles from VMware regarding network configuration, specifically VST VLAN tagging. I have a vCenter Server appliance installed on a Dell server ESXi host as I would like to take advantage of updates and other functionality that a standalone ESXi host doesn’t seem to offer. Also for expansion for a secondary server that will be for a secondary of the DNS / DHCP VM’s.
Here’s the scenario:
Here are the order of configuration changes to allow VST tagging on this host I was thinking about:
Does this order seem correct or ideas? I don't want to make a wrong move and not be able regain connectivity to the VM's already configured.
The instruction is correct. You need to apply trunk configuration on physical switch port and then apply the configuration on ESXi.
But you lose network connectivity during these changes.
I had to modify the steps slightly to complete the task of VST configuration. Here are the steps used:
