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.<\/p>\n
For creating a new Virtual Port Group use:<\/p>\n
Assigning a special VLAN to this a Virtual Port Group:<\/p>\n
With these two simple commands I was able to push my sh script and create same “Networking” configuration on dozen of my ESX servers.<\/p>\n
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esxcfg-vswitch [options] [vswitch[:ports]]<\/p>\n
<\/span>-a|–add <\/span>Add a new virtual switch.<\/p>\n <\/span>-d|–delete <\/span>Delete the virtual switch.<\/p>\n <\/span>-l|–list <\/span>List all the virtual switches.<\/p>\n <\/span>-L|–link=pnic <\/span>Set pnic as an uplink for the vswitch.<\/p>\n <\/span>-U|–unlink=pnic <\/span>Remove pnic from the uplinks for the vswitch.<\/p>\n <\/span>-M|–add-pg-uplink <\/span>Add an uplink to the list of uplinks for a portgroup<\/p>\n <\/span>-N|–del-pg-uplink <\/span>Delete an uplink from the list of uplinks for a portgroup<\/p>\n <\/span>-p|–pg=portgroup <\/span>Specify a portgroup for operation<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span>Use ALL to set VLAN IDs on all portgroups<\/p>\n <\/span>-v|–vlan=id <\/span>Set vlan id for portgroup specified by -p<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span>0 would disable the vlan<\/p>\n <\/span>-c|–check <\/span>Check to see if a virtual switch exists.<\/p>\n <\/span>Program outputs a 1 if it exists, 0 otherwise.<\/p>\n <\/span>-A|–add-pg=name <\/span>Add a new portgroup to the virtual switch.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span>-D|–del-pg=name <\/span>Delete the portgroup from the virtual switch.<\/p>\n <\/span>-C|–check-pg=name <\/span>Check to see if a portgroup exists. <\/span>Program<\/p>\n <\/span>outputs a 1 if it exists, 0 otherwise.<\/p>\n <\/span>-B|–set-cdp <\/span>Set the CDP status for a given virtual switch.<\/p>\n <\/span>To set pass one of “down”, “listen”, “advertise”, “both”.<\/p>\n <\/span>-b|–get-cdp <\/span>Print the current CDP setting for this switch.<\/p>\n <\/span>-m|–mtu=MTU <\/span>Set MTU for the vswitch. <\/p>\n <\/span>-r|–restore <\/span>Restore all virtual switches from the configuration file<\/p>\n <\/span>(FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY).<\/p>\n <\/span>-h|–help <\/span>Show this message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 VLAN to this a Virtual Port Group: esxcfg-vswitch -v VLANID -p PORTGROUP vSwitch0 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 VLAN282 vSwitch0[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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[400],"tags":[418,37,147,11,81],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esx-vmware","tag-commandline","tag-esx","tag-howto","tag-script","tag-vlan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}