From the course: vSphere 6.7 Professional Part 01: Managing Networking

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Demo: Create a vSphere 6.7 Distributed Switch

Demo: Create a vSphere 6.7 Distributed Switch - vSphere Tutorial

From the course: vSphere 6.7 Professional Part 01: Managing Networking

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Demo: Create a vSphere 6.7 Distributed Switch

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[Rick Crisci] In this video I'll demonstrate how to create a vSphere Distributed Switch in vSphere 6.7 using the html-5 vSphere Client. And I'll be performing this demo using the free hands-on labs that are available at hol.vmware.com. So as you can see here, I am at the home screen of my vSphere client and I'm just going to click on Networking. And under Networking, if I expand my inventory, you can see in this hands-on lab there's already a vSphere Distributed Switch created. I'm going to go ahead and right click on my virtual data center. And under Distributed Switch I'm going to create a new Distributed Switch. I'm just going to name my Distributed Switch RickCrisciDemo and hit next. And then I'll choose the version of ESXI that's running in my environment. So which versions of ESXI should this Distributed Switch be compatible with? If I have some older ESXI hosts on prior versions of vSphere, I can go ahead…

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