Objective 2.2 – Configure vNetwork Distributed Switches
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Identify vNetwork Distributed Switch capabilities (similar as vSphere 4.1)
Official page with features of vDS:
- Improves visibility into virtual machine traffic through Netflow (New in vDS 5)
- Enhances monitoring and troubleshooting using SPAN and LLDP (New in vDS 5)
- Enables the new Network I/O Control (NIOC) feature (now utilizing per VM controls) (New in vDS 5)
- Simplified provisioning and administration of virtual networking across many hosts and clusters through a centralized interface.
- Simplified end-to-end physical and virtual network management through third-party virtual switch extensions for the Cisco Nexus 1000V virtual switch.
- Enhanced provisioning and traffic management capabilities through private VLAN support and bi-directional virtual machine rate-limiting.
- Enhanced security and monitoring for virtual machines migrated via VMware vMotion through maintenance and migration of port runtime state.
- Prioritized controls between different traffic types, including virtual machine, vMotion, FT, and IP storage traffic.
- Load-based teaming for dynamic adjustment of the teaming algorithm so that the load is always balanced across a team of physical adapters on the distributed switch (New in vDS 4.1).
See also: vSphere 5 new Networking features.
Create/Delete a vNetwork Distributed Switch (same as vSphere 4.x)
For this and next points see the vSphere Networking Guide and http://thevirtualheadline.com/2011/07/11/vsphere-vnetwork-distributed-switches/.
Add/Remove ESXi hosts from a vNetwork Distributed Switch (same as vSphere 4.x)
See the vSphere Networking Guide (page 21).
Add/Configure/Remove dvPort groups (same as vSphere 4.x)
See the vSphere Networking Guide (page 25).
Add/Remove uplink adapters to dvUplink groups (same as vSphere 4.x)
See the vSphere Networking Guide (page 29).
Create/Configure/Remove virtual adapters (same as vSphere 4.x)
See the vSphere Networking Guide (page 30).
Migrate virtual adapters to/from a vNetwork Standard Switch (same as vSphere 4.x)
See the vSphere Networking Guide (page 31) and VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch: Migration and Configuration
Migrate virtual machines to/from a vNetwork Distributed Switch (same as vSphere 4.x)
See the vSphere Networking Guide (page 33) and VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch: Migration and Configuration
