Deployment Guide

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Dell EMC Networking - Deploying VMware vSAN with OS10 Enterprise Edition | version 1.0
Note: The terms vSphere Distributed Switch, VDS, and distributed switch are used interchangeably in this
document.
5.1.3.1 Add distributed port groups
This section provides steps to add the management, vMotion, and vSAN distributed port groups. Example
values used are listed in Table 5.
Example values for distributed port groups
Purpose
Distributed Port Group Name
VLAN
ESXi management
Management-vds01-vSAN
2030
vMotion
vMotion-vds-vSAN
2031
vSAN
vSan-vds-vSAN
2032
T
he following steps can be used to create the port groups:
1. On the web client Home screen, select Networking.
2. Right click on the distributed switch. Select Distributed Port Group > New Distributed Port Group.
3. On the Select name and location page, provide a Name for the distributed port group (example:
Management-vds01-vSAN). Click Next.
4. On the Configure settings page, next to VLAN type, select VLAN. Set the VLAN ID (example:2030) for
the ESXi management port group. Leave other values at their defaults.
5. Click Next > Finish.
6. Create two more Distributed Port Groups (vMotion and vSAN) using the values in Table 5.
After creating the distributed port groups (using example values) your configuration would look like Figure 10.
Completed distributed switch with port groups