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The Complete VMware vSphere Guide
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The Complete VMware vSphere Guide

by Mike Brown, Hersey Cartwright, Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Karel Novak, Paolo Valsecchi
November 2019
Beginner content levelBeginner
768 pages
32h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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How it works…

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 ...

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