Testing connectivity

As we know that our three-tier application, web, app, and DB, is connected to logical switches, let's do some basic testing to confirm their connectivity:

  1. Firstly, go ahead and power on those machines.
  2. Click the vSphere Web Client home icon.
  3. On the vSphere Web Client home tab, click the Inventories | VMs and Templates icon.
  4. Expand the VMs and templates inventory tree and power on each of the following virtual machines found in the discovered virtual machine folder:
    • web-sv-01a
    • web-sv-02a
    • app-sv-01a
    • db-sv-01a

    Testing connectivity

  5. To power on a virtual machine, select the virtual machine in the inventory, then select Power On from the Actions drop-down menu. ...

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