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ESX: esxcfg-vswitch and special vlan switch

Posted by Ivan
/ June 12, 2008 / 2 Comments

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: esxcfg-vswitch -A NAME-TO-GIVE vSwitch0 Assigning a special...

Posted in ESX
VMWare ESX3i Cisco CDP protocol L2 overview

Posted by Ivan
/ February 6, 2008 / 2 Comments

Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) allows ESX Server 3 administrators to determine which Cisco switch port is connected to a given vSwitch. When CDP is enabled for a particular vSwitch, you can view properties of the Cisco switch (such as device ID, software version, and timeout) from the VI Client. You...

Posted in VMWare
Cisco: How to configure switchport for trunking Hyper-V?

Posted by Ivan
/ January 16, 2008 / 2 Comments

In the following example I installed my Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V server and connected the network uplink connection to the default 1 vlan switchport. I have a separated vlan 2200 for my lab environment. I wanted to test the new feature of enabling the VLAN ID on the new Microsoft’s...

Posted in Cisco, Hyper-V