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VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook

You're reading from   VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook If you prefer practice to theory then this is the ideal book for learning how to install and configure VMware vSphere components. Packed with recipes, it's a hands-on tutorial and reference guide for this unbeatable virtualization product.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849684026
Length 466 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Upgrading to vSphere 5.1 FREE CHAPTER 2. Performing a Fresh Installation of vSphere 5.1 3. vSphere Auto Deploy 4. ESXi Image Builder 5. Creating and Managing VMFS Datastores 6. Managing iSCSI and NFS Storage 7. Profile-driven Storage and Storage I/O Control 8. Configuring the vSphere Network 9. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines 10. Configuring vSphere HA 11. Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC 12. Upgrading and Patching using vSphere Update Manager 13. Using vSphere Management Assistant (vMA 5.1) Index

Adding hosts to a vSphere Distributed Switch


Once a DSwitch has been created, we now have to add the ESXi hosts to the DSwitch, so that its physical NIC can be mapped.

How to do it...

The following procedure explains how to attach ESXi hosts to the DSwitch:

  1. Right-click on the DSwitch to which you want to add the hosts, and click on the Add and Manage Hosts... menu item:

  2. In the Add and Manage Hosts wizard, select Add hosts, and click on Next:

  3. Click on the green + icon to bring up the selected new host's window:

  4. In the Select new hosts window, select the hosts which you want to add to the DSwitch, and click on OK:

  5. The Select hosts wizard should now show the added hosts. Click on Next to continue:

  6. Select the unused physical adapters (vmnic), and click on Next:

    The physical NICs being selected will generally have their network backing configured correctly, so that the virtual machine will not lose connectivity when they are migrated to the DSwitch.

    The number of physical adapters that you choose from...

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