vSphere standard switches and distributed switches

[Shad]

At the moment I've got 3 hosts and each one has the same vSwitches and port groups configured, so I can move VMs around and the networking all works. It's a bit of a fiddle though especially creating new VLANs because I have to do the config three times.

I've started looking into changing to distributed switches instead. My question is really whether or not I can run the existing standard vSwitches and the new distributed switches on the same NIC ports at the same time? This would help with testing and then moving things over.

 

[Shad]

Ok, thanks chaps.

Each host has 3 NIC ports, 2 are for VM traffic and connect to a port channel on the switch and the other is for management only (separate NIC). So by my reckoning I should be able to remove one port from the VM traffic vSwitch, remove the port channel config, build the vDS using the now spare port, migrate the VMs over, re-create the port channel and add connect the remaining port to the vDS - right?