The Security, Traffic Shaping, Teaming and Failover mechanisms are identical for a standard vSwitch and a Distributed vSwitch (dvSwitch or VDS), with VDS offering slightly more functionality.
VDS can be configured to handle both ingress and egress traffic shaping, and it supports load balancing based on the load on a physical NIC.
Although we will look at how to configure these settings, we will be discussing the underlying concepts in detail in the next chapter.