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4 Conﬁgure vSwitches for the Virtual

Appliance

Create a New Virtual Switch on the ESXi Server

Conﬁgure the Virtual Switch for Promiscuous Connections

Conﬁgure the Virtual Switch for Jumbo Frames Support

The Virtual Appliance has some speciﬁc requirements on the virtual switches (vSwitches) to which its

data plane ports (esa0, esa1) are connected. This section explains how to create a vSwitch on an ESX or

ESXi 4.1 U1 host that satisﬁes these requirements.

This section does not replace the vSphere ESX or ESXi documentation. The procedures described in this

section assumes that you have already logged into the vSphere client using credentials that grant full

administrative access to the vSphere ESX or ESXi host server.

Create a New Virtual Switch on the ESXi Server

This is an optional step since it is possible to reconﬁgure the virtual switch created by default when ESXi

is installed to support VLANs or another acceptable custom vSwitch might be conﬁgured on the host.

However, using separate vSwitches for the data plane trac helps isolate that trac from other virtual

devices, and permits the switch to be conﬁgured speciﬁcally to meet the needs of V2110.

Note

Alternatively, it is also possible to deﬁne more than one network (Port Group) on a single

vSwitch. All networks on the same vSwitch share the NICs assigned to the vSwitch.

1 Log into the vSphere client.

2 On the vSphere Client screen, select the vSphere server IP address or host name, then select the

Conﬁguration tab.

3 Select Networking from Hardware.

4 Select Add Networking on the Networking screen.

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