March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
504 pages
13h 51m
English
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Network management
vCenter Server is used to create standard and distributed virtual switches. The virtual switches connect virtual machine (VM) network interfaces to port groups, which allows communication between VMs hosted on the same host or different hosts. Virtual switches need to be connected to physical uplinks which are the network interfaces of the ESXi hosts to establish communication between hosts. VMs connected on the same virtual switch and hosted on the same host can communicate directly without the need of an external uplink.
vCenter Server enables the creation of distributed port groups for virtual machines (aggregated virtual ports with a particular set of specifications).