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This requires at least two NICs on each and every host connected to VDS for migration to work smoothly without affecting running VMs.  In case of proper servers with iDRAC/IMM/iLO out of band management you can also consider going to ESXi console and reseting the host, if there are no production VMs/Templates on it.

# Create standard switches with required port-groups (VM Network, 172_24_vlan_24 etc.)
# Remove one uplink from Distributed switch and add it to standard switch
# Click on standard switch and use option for migration kernel port to standard switch (Management Network)
# Migrate VMs to standard switches
# If there are templates then convert templates to VM and migrate them also to standard switch.  Again convert from VM to template.
# Remove VDS after no dependency is shown for it except one connected uplink.
# The second uplink can also be connected to vSwitch.





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