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To migrate host networking to standard switches, you must migrate the network adapters in stages.
For example, remove physical NICs on the hosts from the distributed switch by leaving one physical
NIC on every host connected to the switch to keep the network connectivity up. Next, attach the
physical NICs to the standard switches and migrate VMkernel adapters and virtual machine network
adapters to the switches. Lastly, migrate the physical NIC that you left connected to the distributed
switch to the standard switches.
Add Hosts to a vSphere Distributed Switch
To manage the networking of your vSphere environment by using a vSphere Distributed Switch, you must
associate hosts with the switch. You connect the physical NICs, VMkernel adapters, and virtual machine
network adapters of the hosts to the distributed switch.
Prerequisites
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Verify that enough uplinks are available on the distributed switch to assign to the physical NICs that
you want to connect to the switch.
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Verify that there is at least one distributed port group on the distributed switch.
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Verify that the distributed port group have active uplinks configured in its teaming and failover policy.
If you migrate or create VMkernel adapters for iSCSI, verify that the teaming and failover policy of the
target distributed port group meets the requirements for iSCSI:
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Verify that only one uplink is active, the standby list is empty, and the rest of the uplinks are unused.
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Verify that only one physical NIC per host is assigned to the active uplink.
Procedure
1 In the vSphere Web Client, navigate to the distributed switch.
2 From the Actions menu, select Add and Manage Hosts.
3 On the Select task page, select Add hosts, and click Next.
4 On the Select hosts page, click New hosts, select from the hosts in your data center, click OK, and
then click Next.
5 On the Select network adapter tasks page, select the tasks for configuring network adapters to the
distributed switch and click Next.
6 On the Manage physical network adapters page, configure physical NICs on the distributed switch.
a From the On other switches/unclaimed list, select a physical NIC.
If you select physical NICs that are already connected to other switches, they are migrated to the
current distributed switch.
b Click Assign uplink.
c Select an uplink and click OK.
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