In the previous section, we covered standard virtual networking, but as already explained some of the functionality is only available in the distributed vSwitch only:
- Inbound traffic shaping: Ability to limit not only the egress traffic but also the ingress direction
- Centralized management: Instead of creating multiple standard vSwitches on every ESXi server, only one instance is configured centrally
- PVLAN support: Possibility to use PVLANs in your environment
- NetFlow: Ability to export NetFlow data to the central NetFlow collector
- Port mirroring: Different types of traffic mirroring
- Multicast support: Standard vSwitch is not able to intelligently work with multicast
- Traffic filtering: Network ACLs on the virtual switch itself
- NIOC: Smart control over the network bandwidth on shared physical media
Before we can start playing with the...
