The standard virtual switch (vSwitch)
In previous sections, we covered the concepts that would help you understand how virtual switches work. There is lot more that a virtual switch offers in terms of features and configuration than just to switch layer-2 frames. We will cover the concepts and configuration of a standard vSwitch in this section.
We will cover the following in this section:
- Port groups
- Support for VLANs
- Creating and configuring standard vSwitches
The standard vSwitch is a core networking construct of the ESXi hypervisor. A vSwitch - vSwitch0 is created during the installation to configure the management vmkernel interface (vmk0) on it. The following screenshot shows the default vSwitch created during the installation of ESXi:
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