VLAN-Port Groups

[areeb1988]

Hello,

I have more than one esxi 5 host, separated by a physical Network, i want to configure some vlans on each host, assume i want to use three port groups each of a unique vlan id on a vSwitch on one of the hosts, i create a port groups and i give them a vlan ids. Should the connection between the Physical NIC on the Host and the external Switch have a specific configuration on the nic side or on the physical switch side? because i read about this on many cases on the internet each one talk about something different.

Please Help Me

[vMario156]

No normaly you just need to enable trunking on your physical switch port that your ESXi host gets access to all your VLANs.

Regards,

Mario

[areeb1988]

Thanks Mario,

but if all the hosts on the same physical switch, should i use trunk connection ?

Regards

[rickardnobel · Accepted solution]

areeb1988 wrote:

but if all the hosts on the same physical switch, should i use trunk connection ?

Yes, it does not matter. Note however that "trunk" is what Cisco calls a switchports which sends/accepts frames with VLAN tagging. If you have switches from other vendors the name "trunk" might not be what you shall configure.