Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
Managing Adapters
With a distributed switch, managing virtual and physical adapters is handled quite differ-
ently than with a standard vSwitch. Virtual adapters are VMkernel interfaces, so by managing
virtual adapters, we're really talking about managing VMkernel trafi c—management, vMo-
tion, IP-based storage, and Fault Tolerance logging—on a distributed switch. Physical adapters
are, of course, the physical network adapters that serve as uplinks for the distributed switch.
Managing physical adapters means adding or removing physical adapters connected to ports in
the uplinks distributed port group on the distributed switch.
Perform the following steps to add a virtual adapter to a distributed switch:
1. Launch a supported web browser and connect to a vCenter Server instance to start the
vSphere Web Client. Log in as a user with administrative permissions.
2. From the vSphere Web Client home screen, navigate to the distributed switch you'd like
to edit. One way of doing this is to select vCenter, then choose Distributed Switches from
the inventory lists (not the inventory tree).
3. Select a distributed switch from the inventory list on the left, click the Manage tab in the
details pane on the right, select Settings, and make sure Topology is selected.
4. Click the second icon in the row across the top; the pop-up tooltip reads “Add hosts to
this distributed switch and add or migrate physical or virtual network adapters.” This
launches the Add And Manage Hosts wizard.
5. Select the Manage Host Networking radio button, and then click Next.
6. At the Select Hosts screen, use the green plus icon to add hosts to the list of hosts that
will be modii ed during this process. It might seem like the wizard is asking you to add
hosts to the distributed switch, but what you're really doing here is adding hosts to the
list of hosts that will be modii ed. Click Next when you're ready to move to the next step.
7. In this case, we're modifying virtual adapters, so make sure only the Manage Virtual
Adapters check box is selected. Click Next.
8. With an ESXi host selected, click the New Adapter link near the top of the Manage Virtual
Network Adapters screen, shown in Figure 5.59. This opens the Add Networking wizard.
Figure 5.59
h e Manage Virtual
Network Adapters
screen of the wiz-
ard allows you to
add new adapters
as well as migrate
existing adapters.
 
Search WWH ::




Custom Search