We have ESXi5 hosts and vCenter5 in our environment. We have standard switches currently setup and have not migrated them to the vDS yet. I have a request to setup a new vlan. Our Networkking folks have setup the physical switches with the vlan trunking and tagging. If I remember right, what I now have to do since there is also a VM that must be on this vlan is:
1. setup a Virtual Machine port group on each standard switch in my cluster with the same name and vlan id.
2. Assign the VM with the vlanid to it
now, here's where I'm uncertain.......how do I get this port group to be a dvportgroup on the vDS?