Working with vSphere Standard Switches
The networking architecture of ESXi revolves around creating and configuring virtual switches. These virtual switches are either a vSphere Standard Switch or a vSphere Distributed Switch. First, we'll discuss the vSphere Standard Switch, and then we'll discuss the vSphere Distributed Switch.
You create and manage vSphere Standard Switches through the vSphere Web Client or through the vSphere CLI using the esxcli command, but they operate within the VMkernel. Virtual switches provide the connectivity for network communications, such as:
- Between virtual machines within an ESXi host
- Between virtual machines on different ESXi hosts
- Between virtual machines and other virtual or physical network identities connected via the physical network
- For VMkernel access to networks for Management, vMotion, VMware vSAN, iSCSI, NFS, vSphere Replication, or fault tolerance logging
Take a look at Figure 5.2, which shows the vSphere Web Client depicting a...
