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6 To select the connection speed manually, select the speed and duplex from the drop-down menu.
Choose the connection speed manually if the NIC and a physical switch might fail to negotiate the
proper connection speed. Symptoms of mismatched speed and duplex include low bandwidth or no
link connectivity.
The adapter and the physical switch port it is connected to must be set to the same value, such as auto
and auto or ND and ND, where ND is some speed and duplex, but not auto and ND.
7 Click OK.
Add Uplink Adapters
You can associate multiple adapters to a single vSphere standard switch to provide NIC teaming. The team
can share traffic and provide failover.
Procedure
1 Log in to the ESXi host using the vSphere Client and select the host in the inventory pane.
2 Click the Configuration tab and click Networking.
3 Select a standard switch and click Properties.
4 Click the Network Adapters tab.
5 Click Add to launch the Add Adapter wizard.
6 Select one or more adapters from the list and click Next.
7 (Optional) To reorder the NICs into a different category, select a NIC and click Move Up and Move
Down.
Option Description
Active Adapters
Adapters that the standard switch uses.
Standby Adapters
Adapters that become active if one or more of the active adapters fails.
8 Click Next.
9 Review the information on the Adapter Summary page, click Back to change any entries, and click
Finish.
The list of network adapters reappears, showing the adapters that the standard switch now claims.
10 Click Close to exit the dialog box.
The Networking section in the Configuration tab shows the network adapters in their designated order
and categories.
Setting Up Networking with vSphere Distributed Switches
With vSphere distributed switches you can set up and configure networking in a vSphere environment.
Add a vSphere Distributed Switch
Create a vSphere distributed switch on a vCenter Server datacenter to handle networking traffic for all
associated hosts on the datacenter.
If your system has complex port group requirements, create a distributed port group rather than a default
port group.
vSphere Administration with the vSphere Client
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