Creating Standart Switch spanning on muliple ESX hosts
I am working with vSphere 6.5 environment. we have 2 clusters that have 2 hosts in them. I am seeing that there are 3 Standart Switch created and it is under DataCenter. My question is How I can configure standart Switch to span ESXi hosts.
I couldn't see any menu for me to allow add remove Hosts to this VSwitch,
and I am not talking about Distributed Switch,
Please let me know how to configure this
I couldn't see any menu for me to allow add remove Hosts to this VSwitch,
and I am not talking about Distributed Switch,
Please let me know how to configure this
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You cannot add other ESXi Hosts to these port groups on other ESXi Hosts.
What you need to do is just re-create the same indentical Portgroups on each ESXi Hosts using Standard Switches, which are per Host, not shared.
What you need to do is just re-create the same indentical Portgroups on each ESXi Hosts using Standard Switches, which are per Host, not shared.
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But when I create the same port groups on each ESXi hosts, Then I am seeing the same port groups listed twice . It is noit the way I am having here. I am not sure If i can explain myself.
in the image, port groups shows as only ones and it is mapped to ESX hosts.
But If I create port groups with he same name separately, then they all listed under DataCenter.
It seems as if you can add and remove ESX hosts to these port groups as it is clear the case in my configuration.
in the image, port groups shows as only ones and it is mapped to ESX hosts.
But If I create port groups with he same name separately, then they all listed under DataCenter.
It seems as if you can add and remove ESX hosts to these port groups as it is clear the case in my configuration.
The feature you are looking for is a dvSwitch, Distributed Virtual Switch, as Andrew points out, that is not a feature of a Standard Switch. VMWare has to get paid if you want that. One of the arguements for enterprise licensing
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I know that,,
Then I miss the question, we all know that a standard vswitch doesn't do what you want, but you sound like you want to do it anyways. So I am confused as to what you are asking I guess.
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There is an image attached. pls look at it.
anyways, i do not need them anymore. I created everything ,
I know that standard switch lives on ESXi host versus dswitch on datacenter level etc. I said I am aware of that in the question or following messages,
I think What I was looking for was to create port groups on datacenter or cluster level keeping the switch configurations on ESXi Hosts same.
anyways, i do not need them anymore. I created everything ,
I know that standard switch lives on ESXi host versus dswitch on datacenter level etc. I said I am aware of that in the question or following messages,
I think What I was looking for was to create port groups on datacenter or cluster level keeping the switch configurations on ESXi Hosts same.
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But I couldn't how to do it
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I know but here is the situation. It seems that I can create port groups on standart swithces and add ESX hosts to these Port groups,
please see the image. in this image Management and VM Network Standart network shows ESX hosts.
What I am trying to do is to add another ESXi hosts to this lists and understand how I can create these networks.
I am just trying to create Vmotion/ manegement networks on ESXi hosts as rests of the port groups/networks is on distributed switch.
Thanks
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