Lab 5 - Standard Virtual Switches
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Lab 5 Standard Virtual Switches This lesson offers step by step, screen by screen instructions in a lab-based lesson on how to create a standard virtual switch. Participants learn how to set up port groups and set up VMs to create virtual switches.
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Lab 5 Standard Virtual Switches This lesson offers step by step, screen by screen instructions in a lab-based lesson on how to create a standard virtual switch. Participants learn how to set up port groups and set up VMs to create virtual switches.
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Okay. Welcome to Lab five.
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And this lab will be working with standard virtual switches.
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We'll get a chance to create a switch
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and also get a chance to attach
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the virtual machine that we created earlier. The window seven Virtual Machine
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two.
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The brand new virtual switch. We'll see how that how easy that is to d'oh.
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You do need some information before we begin. We need to know the V Center server name in this case V. C s a
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got via we're not local.
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You need your
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administrator name and password for the view center server.
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We also need to have
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a spare.
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Uh,
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virtual. I'm sorry. I spare physical network interface card
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in order to attach that to the switch if we want to switch
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to get onto the network directly
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and then we need the administrator password for the virtual machine itself.
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Okay,
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so we'll start off by going to our home tab
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clicking, hosting clusters. That's where we just were.
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You remember
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the shortcut control shift? H brings us right to
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hosts and clusters.
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Now, what we need to do is
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go to the networking configuration,
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so I will select my host
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and I'll go to my configuration tab.
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Networking just happens to be selected.
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But if you remember, we looked at our processors, our memory, our storage.
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So we'll go to networking.
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We can see that we've got AVM, nickel zero. It's at gigabit full duplex,
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and you'll notice that the diagram showing what the virtual switch looks like is actually very useful. You can see
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that I've got four virtual machines connected to this
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switch. I also have my VM Colonel Port,
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which has my management network
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and the 0.100 address for
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the host that I'm selecting here.
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Now. What I want to do is create a new switch.
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So I'll go over here to add networking
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and I'm creating a labeled network to handle virtual machine traffic. So the connection type is virtual machine. You're not creating a virtual machine. This menu is a little bit misleading. Unless you read it carefully.
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You can also create of'em Colonel Port using this same wizard. But in this case, we're just gonna create
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a standard virtual switch.
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So I'll click next.
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Now it knows that I have
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VM Nick zero
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already attached to the switch zero
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so that one's de selected
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VM Nick One is available
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so it automatically select that for me.
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Now, I can attach that to my switch, so that makes sure that truck boxes is chucked. They'll notice that it also gives you
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a range of addresses that that it thinks this
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this virtual Nick Sorry, this physical Nick
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may use. It's connected to the same network as the other Nick. So the addresses should be more or less thing.
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So I got that selected. Now I click next.
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I can give this network a name.
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Better idea to name your
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your switches and your networks in your V M Colonel ports with something that's actually descriptive. Instead of just picking the default
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settings,
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we're not setting up a villain I d.
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If you were you, you could type in that number there.
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We're not gonna do that for now,
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so we'll go ahead and click. Next.
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I get a summary showing what that switch will look like
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and I can click Finish
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now let's which shows up.
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You'll notice it shows the interface to speed,
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and I can see that I've got a pork group
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just like I do envy switch zero.
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But in this case, the pork group doesn't have anything in it.
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So now what I need to do is attach
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my window seven virtual machine
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to this particular pork group.
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Very simple thing to do.
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One of the ways we can do that is just right. Click go to edit settings
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and select the network adapter
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by default.
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It was set for the VM Network Virtual Machine Pork Group, which we see here.
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That was the only one that existed. So that was a default setting. Now I've got production as an option,
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so I'll select production
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and we can see that the network adapter in the edit Settings dialogue
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shows that that setting has been change has been edited.
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So click okay,
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And now we should see Windows seven disappear from this port group
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and move to the other pork group.
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So you may be asking, Why would you want to do this? So there's several reasons one of the one of the biggest reasons
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right off the top would be
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that I want to segregate certain vm so that they run on their own
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separate
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network interface.
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Even though I've got to gigabit interfaces.
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If I if I got everything on all my V EMS residing on one switch that's using just one interface
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that switch, maybe or that interface make it a little bit overloaded. So in order to spread the traffic out, Aiken
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attach more physical adapters and
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be able to
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move the VM around to distribute them more evenly.
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All right, so now we're going to make sure that that does switch from one
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virtual switch to another did not affect of'em in any way.
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So I will select Window seven right click open console.
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So this is still logged in from my last session. So I want to do a couple things first. I want to verify that my
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that I have an I p address.
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So hold down the Windows key. Hit the letter R for run,
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and I want a type C M d for my command prompt
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and let's run I p. Config.
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So my network is 100 to 1 61 68 I've been given an address of 2 41
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That's through the D. H. C P server
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that runs on my my local router.
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It's not a static I p
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not that that matters for most purposes, but in some environments
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you don't want to use d HCP want everything to be static
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so that all of your firewall rules will continue to work properly. And you don't have any
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security issues with people getting an address on your network that are not authorized.
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Okay, so I've got
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an address. Looks like the gateway in the sub net Master. Also correct.
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So let's try something else. Let's make sure we can get to the Internet.
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Okay, so my default home page comes up
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and tells me that researchers found a piece of Amelia Earhart's lost plane like an interesting story.
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All right, Anyways, I've got Internet connect connectivity,
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and now I've moved my VM from one switch to another on a different physical interface,
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and that concludes lab fun.
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