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Uncovering vSphere virtual networking Part-1: Basics

Welcome everyone to this series on vSphere virtual networking. In this series, we will explore concepts related to vSphere virtual networking. The reason of doing this series is basically to let everyone understand the idea of how things are working under the hood. To keep it to the topic and make it simple, We will stick to vSphere virtual Networking only and will not discuss concepts related to…

In this video I quickly (and silently) demonstrate how to remove all default "VM Network" portgroups from each ESX(i) host's standard switches.

I come across this issue all of the time when going into new environments or most recently when building my homelab.  I tend to set up an individual vSwitch for my virtual machines with portgroups for different VLANs and as such never use the "VM Network" portrgroup.

You will note in the video that I run the one-liner and receive a confirmation notification.  I chose to back out and demonstrate how to suppress this notification using the -Confirm:$false parameter.

Here is the full one-liner with the suppression of confirmation: