Hi Folks,
As a the moment I'm planning to migrate all of my ESX & ESXi 4.1 into ESXi 5.1 Update 1, so I wonder if my expectation in using DVS is correct.
I have more than 40-50 VM hosts of mixed Enterprise & Enterprise Plus (soon to be ESXi 5.1u1) managed with 4x Standard Stand alone VCenter 5.1 U1 so in order to simplify the vSwitches configuration, should I create DVS ?
In order to join and apply the DVS, does the ESXi hosts each must have the same number on pNIC uplinks ?
How can I upgrade all of my vSwitches into DVS without causing any major downtime for the current production VMs running ?
Does using DVS can make life easier to restore the network setting when a particular ESXi host fails to boot due to a hardware issue or failed upgrade ?
If anyone can assist me with the question above that would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks