Moving Service Console to vDS

[UoGsys]

Recently implemented our brand spanking new ESX cluster with the following initial NIC setup -

4x NIC Setup in a trunk environment sharing the following VLAN's - SC, vMotion, VM Networks/s

our sevice console is setup initially with a single vSwitch (4 adapters) with SC IP set. I want to move this to a a vDS, but all uplinks are in use. Question is, how to I move the uplinks and SC portgroup to a vDS without affecting connectivity to my hosts?

[AnatolyVilchins]

This might be helpfull:

http://books.google.com/books?id=F_8qs4lPLpwC&pg=PT195&lpg=PT195&dq=howtomoveuplinksvsphere&source=bl&ots=GmtANMuZrv&sig=VqMmd3SbLy95FzsE758H6S3S5MI&hl=en&ei=pv0wS7PWCtCg_gaYwan1CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CBIQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=&f=false

StarWindSoftware Developer

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[UoGsys]

Closed - sorted with the following CLI options -

esxcfg-vswitch –U <vmnic#> vSwitch0

To remove the uplink fromt the vSwitch

esxcfg-vswitch –P <vmnic#> -V dvSwitch

To add the uplink to the DvS.

Couple of pre-requisites to this though. You

need to create the dvswitch first and add the host from VC (but no uplinks

yet). Create a portgroup for the service console and configure your load

balancing policy and other settings. Then you remove a physical NIC from the

existing vswitch and migrate your SC from the vSwitch to the DvS using the

wizard and to the service console portgroup you created earlier on the DvS. At

this point your SC bricks and you need to go to the command line, remove the

uplinks from the vswitch.

Then add them to the DvS with the above command

and bob’s your uncle