How it works...
A vSphere Distributed Switch is created at the data center level and spans across multiple participating hosts or clusters. Therefore, it can only be created by using a vCenter Server. The vCenter's data center inventory object is the boundary for dvSwitches.
A dvSwitch will have a single control plane and multiple data planes. The control plane is at the vCenter Server and is used to create and manage the dvSwitch. There will be a data plane created on each of the participating ESXi hosts. This means that all the packet switching will happen at the ESXi hosts. The use of a dvSwitch reduces the administrative complexity of configuring vSphere Standard Switches on individual ESXi hosts in a large environment.
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