ESX: esxcfg-vswitch and special vlan switch
Ivan Versluis June 12th, 2008
If you need to create 5 or more of Virtual Port groups on a vSwtich and you don’t want to use the VI client than logon on the service console and run the commands below.
For creating a new Virtual Port Group use:
Assigning a special VLAN to this a Virtual Port Group:
With these two simple commands I was able to push my sh script and create same “Networking” configuration on dozen of my ESX servers.
[root@ESX-02 root]# esxcfg-vswitch -A VLAN283 vSwitch0
[root@ESX-02 root]# esxcfg-vswitch -A VLAN284 vSwitch0
[root@ESX-02 root]# esxcfg-vswitch -A VLAN285 vSwitch0
[root@ESX-02 root]# esxcfg-vswitch -A VLAN299 vSwitch0
[root@ESX-02 root]# esxcfg-vswitch -A VLAN220 vSwitch0
[root@ESX-02 root]# esxcfg-vswitch -v 282 -p VLAN282 vSwitch0
[root@ESX-02 root]# esxcfg-vswitch -v 283 -p VLAN283 vSwitch0
[root@ESX-02 root]# esxcfg-vswitch -v 284 -p VLAN284 vSwitch0
[root@ESX-02 root]# esxcfg-vswitch -v 285 -p VLAN285 vSwitch0
[root@ESX-02 root]# esxcfg-vswitch -v 299 -p VLAN299 vSwitch0
[root@ESX-02 root]# esxcfg-vswitch -v 220 -p VLAN220 vSwitch0
esxcfg-vswitch [options] [vswitch[:ports]]
-a|–add Add a new virtual switch.
-d|–delete Delete the virtual switch.
-l|–list List all the virtual switches.
-L|–link=pnic Set pnic as an uplink for the vswitch.
-U|–unlink=pnic Remove pnic from the uplinks for the vswitch.
-M|–add-pg-uplink Add an uplink to the list of uplinks for a portgroup
-N|–del-pg-uplink Delete an uplink from the list of uplinks for a portgroup
-p|–pg=portgroup Specify a portgroup for operation
Use ALL to set VLAN IDs on all portgroups
-v|–vlan=id Set vlan id for portgroup specified by -p
0 would disable the vlan
-c|–check Check to see if a virtual switch exists.
Program outputs a 1 if it exists, 0 otherwise.
-A|–add-pg=name Add a new portgroup to the virtual switch.
-D|–del-pg=name Delete the portgroup from the virtual switch.
-C|–check-pg=name Check to see if a portgroup exists. Program
outputs a 1 if it exists, 0 otherwise.
-B|–set-cdp Set the CDP status for a given virtual switch.
To set pass one of “down”, “listen”, “advertise”, “both”.
-b|–get-cdp Print the current CDP setting for this switch.
-m|–mtu=MTU Set MTU for the vswitch.
-r|–restore Restore all virtual switches from the configuration file
(FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY).
-h|–help Show this message.
