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From vCenter Home, select the Datacenters from the navigation pane.
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The Datacenters list displays.
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From the Objects tab (or navigation pane), click your datacenter.
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The Datacenter screen displays for your selected datacenter defaulted to the "Getting Started" tab.
From Basic Tasks list, select Create a distributed switch.
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The New Distributed Switch dialog displays.
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For the next several steps, you will create a distributed switch for each type of interface in the order shown below. The examples shown below are for VDS-MGMT distributed switch. If server has more than 4 physical NIC ports, you can opt to assign VDS-MGMT label to vSwitch1, VDS-HA to vSwitch2, VDS-PKT0 to vSwitch3 and VDS-PKT1 to vSwitch4. - vSwitch0 - VDS-MGMT
- vSwitch1 - VDS-HA
- vSwitch2 - VDS-PKT0
- vSwitch3 - VDS-PKT1
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Select the Name field and enter distributed switch name, then click Next. (New Distributed Switch, step 1).
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The Select Version screen displays.
Select distributed switch version 5.1.0, and click Next.
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The Edit Settings screen displays.
Make the following choices, and then click Next:
- Number of uplinks: 4
- Network I/O Control:"Enabled"
- Default port group: enabled (checked)
Port group name: Enter the name for your port group.
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Verify your settings from step 4 "Ready to complete". When satisfied, click Finish
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- Repeat steps 4-7 to create distributed switches for VDS-HA, VDS-PKT0 AND VDS-PKT1 interfaces.
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