How to move vCenter Server Appliance to a vDS

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I am trying to migrate both the only vCSA and the VMKernel interface in my ESXi host from a standard vSwitch to a vDS, and that gave me all kinds of mess. How to do that properly? Bear in mind that the host in question also have the virtual machine that performs as the router.

My intended setup:

The host:

                     [      ]- vmnic0 -+- LACP --- Switch 1 (managed)
Internet --- vmnic3 -[ Host ]- vmnic1 -+
                     [      ]- vmnic2 --- Switch 2 (unmanaged)

vSwitch0:

vmnic3 --[ vSwitch0 ]-- vRouter

vDS:

vmnic0 -+- LAG1 --[     ]-- vRouter
vmnic1 -+         [ vDS ]-- vCSA
         vmnic2 --[     ]-- vmk0 (management network)

vRouter (OS: Ubuntu Linux):

vSwitch0 --[ vRouter ]-- vDS

vCSA (and other VMs):

vDS --[ vCSA ]

Other physical computers are attached on Switch1 or Switch2. There is also another ESXi host.

Best Answer

Caveat:

I don't think a distributed switch or LACP belong here. And this definitely doesn't sound like an environment with VMware Enterprise licensing...

But use the network migration tool in VMware. This is fully-documented and a supported means of migrating virtual and physical adapters from Standard vSwitches to vDS.

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