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vcenter backup vlan

i have one vcenter 6 and 2 cluster. on that vcenter one vm distributed switch and one vmotion distributed switch . now i want to create backup network . backup network and datadomain separate network. now i want to use one 1 gbit nic for backup newtwork.  that nic i will be add vm distributed switch or i will create different distributed switch for backup network.

vcenter and esxi same vlan ( vlan10)

vm vlan ( vlan20 )

backup vlan ( vlan 30 )

vmotion vlan ( vlan40)

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Nick_Andreev
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I personally tend to create just one vSphere Distributed Switch and then control port group uplinks via NIC teaming.

But if in your environment you create a distributed switch for every group of uplinks, then you may as well continue to do so.

Both approaches would work, I guess it's more just a matter of preference.

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