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Data Center Virtualization Certification: VCP6.5-DCV Exam Guide
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Data Center Virtualization Certification: VCP6.5-DCV Exam Guide

by Andrea Mauro, Paolo Valsecchi
August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
598 pages
13h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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Comparing and contrasting vSphere Distributed Switch capabilities

A vDS provides centralized management and monitoring of the networking configuration of all hosts that are associated with the vDS.

Using vDS separates the control plane from the data plane:

  • The control plane is located in the vCenter Server and it's the structure used to manage the vDS (formally, it's more a management plane, in that it includes most control plane features).
  • The data plane is distributed on each ESXi and it implements basic networking features, such as package switching, filtering, VLAN tagging, and so on. The data plane section of a vDS located on an ESXi host is called a host proxy switch. 

The vDS networking configuration created on vCenter Server (the ...

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