I noticed I had named some vSwitches in the new hosts builds I had. This was nice. However I also noticed I couldn’t name a vSwitch when creating in vCenter. So how did I name them.
I quickly searched google, but the primary results were not what I was expecting….
All of which either stated to edit the host config file, or use cli commands… well I know I did do the first thing, and I don’t remember using the CLI. Also I don’t remember having to reboot the host. The only diff I can think of is that I named them at creation, not after the fact, but the vCenter wizard has no option for that… but sure enough I checked my documentation.
If you login into a host directly, you can name a vSwitch right when creating it. This just requires to be done on each host in the cluster. It’s nice but is it worth it?
Once you have it setup it is really nice to have named vSwitches.
of course this doesn’t include dvSwitches, as those you can name and usually require uplinks to communicate between hosts. However you can still deploy a test dvSwitch to multiple hosts without an uplink though those VMs would only be useful on a single host… which defeats the purpose of it, but you can move the VMs as a whole group between VMs, and if that “Test switch” need any change it would be distributed between all hosts.