October 2016
Beginner
606 pages
11h 7m
English
A vSphere distributed switch (VDS) was primarily built to reduce the administrative overhead involved in maintaining the network configuration in a large environment. A very common misconception is that VDS is a single switch that spans over multiple ESXi hosts. The fact is that it is not. All it does is to offer a single management plane for all the host data planes (hidden software switches) distributed on the ESXi hosts, hence the name distributed switch:

The hidden software switch is not a standard switch per se, as it offers much greater capabilities when compared to a vSphere standard switch. The management ...
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