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+A Port Group contains one or more interfaces from Virtual Machines. A Port Group is created and assigned to a Virtual Switch (vSwitch). This then maps a Port Group to a Physical Interface via a vSwitch (you can't directly map Port Groups to Physical Interfaces).
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+Log in to the ESXi Web GUI, on the left hand pane select <color #ed1c24>Networking</color>.
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+At the top of the page, select <color #ed1c24>Port Groups</color> and then select <color #ed1c24>Add port group</color>.
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+The Add port group page will open.
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+We need to enter some information here:
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+**Name:**     A name for the Port Group. I have used Ingress (and Egress for a second Port Group)\\
+**VLAN ID:**  Unless you have a good reason, leave this as 0 (default)\\
+**Virtual Switch:** This is the vSwitch you wish to assign this port group to, use the vSwitch you created earlier.\\
+**Security:** Unless you have a good reason, leave this as default\\
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+Create a second <color #ed1c24>Port Group</color> (Egress).
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+You will now be able to see both the <color #ed1c24>Port Groups</color> you created.
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+At the top of the <color #ed1c24>Networking</color> page, click <color #ed1c24>Virtual Switches</color>.
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+Click on the vSwitch you assigned the <color #ed1c24>Port Groups</color> to.
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+This displays the information about your vSwitch, the part of interest here is the vSwitch topology diagram, this displays a graphical
+representation of what you have just created. A larger view is below.
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+Remember, here we are looking at a graphical representation of our vSwitch, on the left we see the two <color #ed1c24>Port Groups</color> we just created. On the Right we see the <color #ed1c24>Physical Interface</color> that this vSwitch is connected to (vmnic8).
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+To use this <color #ed1c24>Port Group</color> / <color #ed1c24>vSwitch configuration</color>, you will need to use one of the Port Groups in your Virtual Machine configuration, you can see that [[create_vm|here]].
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