Before we jump to the details about vSwitches, we have to understand which critical components of vSphere networking are available. We will dive deeper in to the individual components and the configuration options later on, but for now, let's have a brief look at them:
These are the components as seen in the preceding screenshot:
- Port groups: This is a logical container that is used to interconnect your VMs. On the port group, you can define to which VLAN a port group belongs, and by default the port group will inherit the configuration from the virtual switch, but you can override such settings if you need to.
- Virtual switches: In the VMware world, we have two types of virtual switches, which are classified as vNetwork Standard Switch (vSS) and vNetwork Distributed Switch (vDS). The vSS is configured on every ESXi host, meaning independently...
