•
If migrating to a standard switch:
—
Create a new standard switch and attach at least one VMNIC as an uplink for the standard
switch.
—
vNIC0 and vNIC1 connect to a different set of physical switches than vNIC2 and vNIC3. Do
not add vNIC2 and/or vNIC3 to vSwitch0, because it could cause the VMware vSphere ESXi
host to lose network connectivity if management traffic gets switched.
—
If no VMNICs are available, migrate one VMNIC from the VMware VDS. Keep the second
VMNIC on the Distributed Switch for VM traffic to continue to communicate
—
Create the VM port group with correct VLAN ID to the new standard switch.
Procedure
1
Open a browser and type the following URL:
https://<vCenterIP>:9443/vsphere-
client
You can also launch the VMware vSphere Web Client by selecting
Start Menu > All
Programs > VMware > VMware vSphere Web Client
. The alternative launch method above
does not apply to vSphere 6.5.
2
Log on to the VMware vSphere Web Client with the
user account
(VMware vSphere SSOaccount) or other administrative account with appropriate permissions.
3
On the
VMware vSphere Web Client Home
tab, under
Inventories
, click
Networking
.
4
Right-click
DVswitch01-A
and select
Migrate VM to Another Network
.
5
From the
Migrate Virtual Machine Networking
wizard, perform the following:
a
Verify that
Specific network
is selected and click
Browse
.
b
Select the
Source network
distributed port group or standard port group and click
OK
.
c
Select
Browse
for the destination network.
d
Select the distributed port group or port group where the VMs will be reassigned and click
Ok
.
e
Click
Next
.
f
When the list of VMs appear, select the checkbox on each VM, and click
Next
.
g
Validate that the source and destination is correct and click
Finish
. The selected VMs
distributed port groups migrate to a new distributed or standard switch.
Migrating the VMKernel ports to a different switch
Migrate the VMKernel ports to a different distributed or standard switch.
Before you begin
Do not associate the VMware vSphere ESXi host with VMKernel ports to the VMware VDS. Create
another distributed or standard switch to migrate the VMKernel ports.
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