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The following table shows recommended settings:
Edit option
Field: recommended setting
General
—
Name
: the name chosen for the distributed port group
—
Port binding
:
Static Binding
—
Port allocation
:
Elastic
—
Number of ports
:
8
(increases automatically as long as
Elastic
is
selected for port allocation)
—
Network resource pool
: use default setting
—
Description
: Add details about distributed port groups
Advanced
—
Configure reset at disconnect
:
Enabled
—
Override port policies
: use default setting
Security
—
Promiscuous mode
:
Reject
—
MAC address changes
:
Reject
—
Forged transmit
:
Reject
Traffic shaping
—
Ingress traffic shaping
:
Disabled
—
Egress traffic shaping
:
Disabled
VLAN
—
VLAN type
:
VLAN
—
VLAN ID
: Refer to the
Logical Configuration Survey
Teaming and failover
—
Load balancing
:
Route
based on physical NIC load. The vMotion port
group only has one active uplink (associated with vNIC2 fabric A). The
other uplink should be in standby mode
—
Network failure detection
:
Link status only
—
Notify switches
:
Yes
—
Failback
:
Yes
Monitoring
Netflow
:
default
Traffic filtering and
marking
—
Status
: enable this option for vMotion NFS distributed port groups. All
other port groups should be disabled
—
vMotion Traffic Rule Enabled
- use the + sign to make edits
—
Action tag
—
COS value
checkbox is selected
—
Set CoS to 4
—
Set traffic direction to
Ingress
for VMware vSphere 6.x.
See the
VMware vSphere 6.x Release Notes
for
information about ingress and egress parameters.
—
Type System Traffic and set Protocol/Traffic Type to vMotion
—
NFS Traffic Rule Enabled - use the + sign to make edits
—
Action tag
—
COS value
checkbox is selected
—
Set CoS to 2
—
Set traffic direction to
Ingress
for VMware vSphere 6.x.
Refer to the
VMware vSphere 6.x Release Notes
for
information about ingress and egress parameters.
—
Type IP and set Protocol/Traffic Type to Any
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