The virtual switch technology that's chosen is dependent on the connectivity, availability, and manageability requirements, and the features that are available on the virtual switch.
A vSwitch is configured and managed independently on each ESXi host and supports up to 1,024 virtual switch ports per vSwitch. Because vSwitches are configured on each individual host, it increases the administrative overhead required to support large environments. Advanced network features, such as port mirroring, NetFlow integration, and private VLANs, are not available when using standard virtual switches. vSwitches are available at all vSphere license levels.
Several networks can use the same vSwitch, or the networks can be separated across ...
