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Converting a HCI 2-cable vDS configuration to a 6-cable VSS configuration

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6/27/2025, 4:09:14 AM

Applies to

  • NetApp H-Series Storage Nodes
  • NetApp H-Series Compute Nodes 

Description

Customers with HCI clusters using the Virtual Distributed Switches (vDS), VMware Enterprise licensing, and the 2-cable NetApp HCI configuration wanting to downgrade to VMWare Standard licensing and VMware Standard Switches (VSS)

 

 

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