Installing and configuring VMware vSphere Distributed Switch on Cisco UCS

In this recipe, we will learn how to create vSphere's Distributed Switch on Cisco UCS.

Getting ready

Prepare a Cisco UCS 5108 Chassis with two UCS IOM 2208XP installed; each UCS IOM is connected to a Cisco UCS 6428UP and configured into two ports on each Cisco UCS 6428UP as Ethernet uplink ports connected to the upstream Ethernet LAN Switch by Fibre Channel cables. The UCS service profile (defined four vNIC1/2/3/4) has associated into the UCS Server and can boot up the OS successfully. The details are listed in the following diagram:

Getting ready

How to do it…

In this recipe, we will learn ...

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