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Published inOct 2015
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Sajal Debnath
Sajal Debnath
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Sajal Debnath

Sajal Debnath is a highly certified Cloud computing technocrat with more than 12 years of experience in virtualized data center design, Cloud computing, and BC/DR solutions. He is an EMCISA, VCAP-DCD/DCA, VCAP-CID/CIA, RHCE 4/5/6, RHCVA, Openstack, and ITIL certified person. He is presently associated with VMware Software India Pvt. Ltd. as a senior system engineer. Previously, he worked with France Telecom, Hewlett Packard, and many more in multiple roles. He is involved in prestigious Indian government projects, such as National Cloud, Digital Locker, and so on.
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Managing vSphere standard switches


To manage complete vSphere networking, we need two different components. All the cmdlets for standard switches and other one come with the VMware.VimAutomation.Core snap-in/module, and all the cmdlets related to distributed switches are included in the VMware.VimAutomation.Vds module. In this section, we will discuss standard switches; in the next section, we will discuss distributed switches. For all the cmdlets to run successfully, we need to connect to a vCenter server. So, let's connect to a vCenter server and get started.

As you already know, whenever you install an ESXi server, by default a standard vSwitch with the name vSwitch0 is created.

The first thing that we need to do is to get accustomed to the vSwitch in an ESXi host using the PowerCLI cmdlets. For this, we can use the following cmdlets:

  • Get-VirtualSwitch

  • New-VirtualSwitch

  • Remove-VirtualSwitch

  • Set-VirtualSwitch

First, let's try to get a list of virtual switches available in the entire environment...

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Sajal Debnath

Sajal Debnath is a highly certified Cloud computing technocrat with more than 12 years of experience in virtualized data center design, Cloud computing, and BC/DR solutions. He is an EMCISA, VCAP-DCD/DCA, VCAP-CID/CIA, RHCE 4/5/6, RHCVA, Openstack, and ITIL certified person. He is presently associated with VMware Software India Pvt. Ltd. as a senior system engineer. Previously, he worked with France Telecom, Hewlett Packard, and many more in multiple roles. He is involved in prestigious Indian government projects, such as National Cloud, Digital Locker, and so on.
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