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We have a cluster with virtual standard switch. We renewed our license to Ent plus. I want to install vDS for now without migrating anything to that &nbsp;and few moths later migrate the vSS to vDS.<br />
For now Can I install vDS and add the host without any down time? my worries is that incase ESxi host break from network when i add the host to vDS.<br />
&nbsp;I am not going to add physical adaptors to vDS since i do not have any free.
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We have a cluster with virtual standard switch. We renewed our license to Ent plus. I want to install vDS for now without migrating anything to that  and few moths later migrate the vSS to vDS.
For now Can I install vDS and add the host without any down time? my worries is that incase ESxi host break from network when i add the host to vDS.
 I am not going to add physical adaptors to vDS since i do not have any free.

Vss and vDS

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.