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A VM port group, on the other hand, does not have a one-to-one relationship, and it does not
require an IP address. For a moment, forget about vSwitches and consider standard physical
switches. When you install or add an unmanaged physical switch into your network environ-
ment, that physical switch does not require an IP address: You simply install the switches and
plug in the appropriate uplinks that will connect them to the rest of the network.
A vSwitch created with a VM port group is really no different. A vSwitch with a VM port
group acts just like an additional unmanaged physical switch. You need only plug in the appro-
priate uplinks—physical network adapters, in this case—that will connect that vSwitch to the
rest of the network. As with an unmanaged physical switch, an IP address does not need to
be coni gured for a VM port group to combine the ports of a vSwitch with those of a physical
switch. Figure 5.22 shows the switch-to-switch connection between a vSwitch and a physical
switch.
Figure 5.22
A vSwitch with
a VM port group
uses an associated
physical network
adapter to establish
a switch-to-switch
connection with a
physical switch.
ESXi host
ProductionLAN
56 ports
vSwitch0
vmnic0
vmnic1
vmnic2
vmnic3
Production
LAN
Perform the following steps to create a vSwitch with a VM port group using the vSphere Web
Client:
1. Use the vSphere Web Client to establish a connection to a vCenter Server instance.
2. From the vSphere Web Client home page, click vCenter from the Inventories section, then
select Hosts from the inventory lists on the left.
3. Select the ESXi host on which you'd like to add a vSwitch, then click Manage, and i nally,
select the Networking section.
4. Click the Add Host Networking icon (a small globe with a plus sign) to start the Add
Networking wizard.
5. Select the Virtual Machine Port Group For A Standard Switch radio button, and
click Next.
6. Because you are creating a new vSwitch, select the New Standard Switch radio button.
Click Next.
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