The Great vSwitch Debate

Contents

Part 1. vSwitch Configuration

What is a vSwitch?

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Part 2. vSwitch Security Features

Promiscuous Mode

MAC Address Change

Forged Transmit

Traffic Shaping Configuration

Miscellaneous Security Features

Part 3. vSwitch Load Balancing

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vSwitch Port Based Load Balancing

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MAC Address Based Load Balancing

IP Hash Based Load Balancing

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Explicit Failover Order Load Balancing

Load Balancing and 802.1Q VLAN Tagging

Load Balancing Summary

Part 4. Fault Detection and the Cisco Discovery Protocol

Network Path Failure Detection

Beacon Probing

Link Status Only

Which to Use?

Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP)

Part 5. The Various Networks

VMware Management Network

VMotion Network

NFS Network

iSCSI Network

Virtual Machine Network(s)

Best Practices

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Part 6. Host Configurations

Configuration with Eight pNICs and IP Storage

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Configuration with Eight pNICs without IP Storage

Part 7. More Host Configurations

Configuration with Six pNICs

Configuration with Four pNICs

Configuration with Two pNICs

Configuration with One pNIC

Summary

Part 8. Naming Standards