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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…

Load balancing distributes the network load across multiple available adapters. Load balancing policies are configured as a part of the NIC Teaming and failover options on virtual switches, virtual machine PortGroups, and VMkernel interfaces.

The following screenshot illustrates the Edit Settings dialog for configuring the Teaming and failover options on the virtual machine PortGroup on a standard virtual switch:

Configuring Teaming and Failover options for a portgroup

The following load balancing policies can be applied to virtual switches or virtual PortGroups:

  • Route based on originating virtual port: This is the default load ...
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