Nexus 1000v Vmotion

[danierobberts]

Hi.

Is it possible to enable/add a vmotion port-profile after the hosts have been migrated into the Nexus DVS?

Hosts are ESXi4.1 Update 1 with a single vmk0, dual nic's.

From the documentation I have, we need to create additional vmk groups before adding the host into the DVS, and then mapping those to port-profiles.

I need to add these vmk's afterwards, as the hosts are in a production environment.

thank you,

Danie

[Robert Burns · Accepted solution]

Yes.  First create a Port Profile for VMotion on the VSM.  Next select the host and go to Configuration -> Neworking -> Manage Virtual Adapters -> Add -> New Virtual Adapter/Migrate Virtual Adapter. 

This will let you setup a new VMK interfaces and/or assign it to the corresponding VMotion Port profile created previously.

The VMotion port-profile would look something like:

port-profile type vethernet dvs_vmotion

  vmware port-group

  switchport mode access

  switchport access vlan x

  no shutdown

  state enabled

Regards,

Robert