Methods and apparatus to migrate physical server hosts between virtual standard switches and virtual distributed switches in a network

A tangible computer readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors to at least:

• obtain a user-selection of first physical network interface cards of a first physical server host to migrate from a virtual standard switch to a virtual distributed switch;
• generate a first migration plan to configure the virtual distributed switch using network configuration settings of the virtual standard switch corresponding to the first physical network interface cards;
• and
• based on a user-selection to proceed with migration from the virtual standard switch to the virtual distributed switch:
• create the virtual distributed switch in the first physical server host and a second physical server host, and
• configure the network configuration settings of the virtual standard switch in the virtual distributed switch.

A method to migrate a physical server host from a virtual standard switch to a virtual distributed switch, the method comprising:

• obtaining a user-selection of first physical network interface cards of a first physical server host to migrate from the virtual standard switch to the virtual distributed switch;
• generating a first migration plan to configure the virtual distributed switch using network configuration settings of the virtual standard switch corresponding to the first physical network interface cards;
• and
• based on a user-selection to proceed with the migration plan migration from the virtual standard switch to the virtual distributed switch:
• creating the virtual distributed switch in the first physical server host and a second physical server host, and
• configuring the network configuration settings of the virtual standard switch in the virtual distributed switch.