Monday 26 July 2021

setting up trunks on VMware

Setup the trunk ports on your switch and trunk the vlans to your VMhosts. 

Sample setup

2 hosts

2 switches

From each host a trunk cable to SW1 and SW2

4 cables total. Remember you will need other ports on your VMware servers for MGMT vMotion etc.



VMWARE 5.x

New port group

NoVLAN (used for native (untagged traffic) VLAN - not usually ysed)

VLAN type none 


VLAN 81 - DMZ (most used)

VLAN type: vlan

VLAN ID: 81


VLAN Trunk (need to do the tagging on the guest VM)

VLAN Trunking

VLAN TRUNK RANE: 150-160


VMware 6.x

Networking

Make a new port group

Hosts -> config -> Networking -> Virtual switch -> Add networking

New vswitch

virtual machine port group for standard switch


Standard vSwitch0 for example need to setup the same on each host so VM's can failover

Distributed switch can be setup at the DC level and is automatically created for you on each host.

Looks like we might need to make a distributed switch

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