I’ve been working with my colleague, Rawlinson Rivera, on documenting a few features around VSA deployments. Rawlinson is currently working on a new feature of VSA 5.1 called brownfield install, which basically allows you to deploy the VSA when you already have VMs running on your ESXi hosts.
During the host audit section of the install, we observed the following warning:- NIC ports to physical switch connectivity doesn’t provide both NIC and physical switch redundancy.
The issue is however is that if you have a stackable switch configuration, you will also get this warning. So even though you might have physical switch redundancy in your network, you could still encounter this warning. In that case, it is safe to just ignore the warning and continue with the installation/deployment.
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