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Back to Basics – vCenter Server Appliance
This post is a bit of funny one – as it really isn’t in series with the rest of my “Back to Basics” posts. It’s […]
Back to Basics – Creating and Managing a Distributed Switch with PowerCLI (9 of 9)
I think this is my post about Distributed Switch in my “Back to Basics” series. At the back of mind I know I’ve yet to […]
Back To Basics: Migrating from Standard Switches to Distributed Switches (8 of 9)
Note: Currently the desktop vSphere Client supports a drag-and-drop move of multiple VMs from one portgroup to another – however, the Web Client does not. […]
Back to Basics: NIOC (Part 7 of 9)
Network I/O controls together with Network Resource Pools allow for a sophisticated management of all the traffic types available on a Distributed Switch. There are […]
Back to Basics: Configuring NetFlow (Part 6 of 9)
From monitoring it is possible to enable the NetFlow protocol on the portgroup. Once enabled, you can configure the NetFlow collection IP address and TCP […]
Back to Basics: Health Check (5 of 9)
Health Check allows vSphere to analyse the attributes of the Distributed Switch, and compare them to the attributes of the physical switch. It can be […]
Back To Basics: Private VLAN (4 of 9)
You know the more I get back into Distributed Switches – the more this is looking like a 10/20/30 part series…! This part concerns Private […]
Back To Basics – Migrating to Enhanced LACP (Part 3 of 9)
Introduction Recommendation: If you are intend to use LACP consider deploying from day one rather than migrating from Distribute Uplink containers. The migration is simple […]
Back To Basics: Managing Properties of Distributed Switch (Part 2 of 9)
Wooo-weee. Aren’t there a lot of settings and options on both Distributed Switch and the Portgroup. It can feel a bit daunting if its the […]