January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
574 pages
14h 44m
English
Virtual machine workloads share not only the compute and storage resources on an ESXi server, but the physical network interfaces as well. There are physical limits on how well these network interfaces can serve the bandwidth needs of the virtual machines using them. More importantly, not every virtual machine has the same network workload characteristics. Hence, it becomes extremely critical for the virtual switches to have network load distribution, load balancing, and failover capabilities.
Let's begin by comparing the teaming and failover capabilities of both the switch types:
|
Teaming methods |
vSwitch |
dvSwitch |
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Route based on originating virtual port ID |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Route based on source MAC hash |
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