VLANs or Virtual LANs are a method to further divide your physical network subnet into unique broadcast domains. It is not uncommon in a modern day IT infrastructure to host your business workload on different VLANs. Both the Standard and Distributed Virtual Switches support the use of VLANs. However, they cannot be configured directly on the switches, but only on port groups, dvPortGroup, or dvPorts.
Configuring VLANs on a vSphere Standard or Distributed Switch
Getting ready
Before you learn how to configure VLANs on a Standard or Distributed Switch it is important to know that there are four supported types:
- External Switch Tagging (EST): Requires no VLAN ID to be configured on the port group (Standard or Distributed)...