I am confused. I use ESXi 5.1U1. I have 6 hosts in a cluster; all are using standard vswitches for their VM networking (with separate vswitches and NICs for service console and vmotion). So I want to use a distributed switch for the VMs to use. So I created a vswitch, created the port groups, added the NICs from only 1 host (to start) as uplink. Then I am trying to migrate the VM networking to use the new distributed port groups.
And when I do, I do not see all the VMs that are on the standard vnetwork that I am choosing to migrate to the new distributed vnetwork, And I can't figure out why, and I am waiting for a call back from Tech Support. Right now, the host with the NICs I selected as uplinks is in maintenance mode, because it doesn't have the standard vnetworks that all the VMs use on it anymore, so it can't host anything, and is effectively useless, until I resolve this.
From what I read (the Distributed Switch Migration and Configuration Guide), I should be able to do this - define the vds, put an uplink port from just one host at a time, and migrate the VM networking. I can't afford to have any networking interruption, and that's the scenario I followed,
Hints, anyone? It must be something I've done wrong, but I don't know what.
Thanks