Traffic shaping
Both virtual switches (vSwitch or dvSwitch) include a traffic shaper that enables control of network transfer rates. The only difference is that the traffic shaper on the vSphere Standard Switch can only handle the egress traffic, but the vSphere Distributed Switch can handle both ingress and egress.
Anything that leaves a virtual switch (standard or dvSwitch) is egress, and anything that enters a virtual switch (vSwitch or dvSwitch) is ingress. The ingress source can either be a vNIC or a VMK interface.
VMware cannot control what happens beyond the host's physical network adapter boundaries. Hence, the traffic flow that the traffic shaper can control is the flow (ingress/egress) between the virtual machines/VMkernel interfaces ...
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