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IGMP/MLD snooping –> forwards multicast traffic to VM according to IPv4 IPv6 addresses subscribed in multicast group (using Internet Group Management Protocol IGMP or Multicast Listener Discovery protocol MLD).
#NIC TEAMING VMWARE ESXI 6 MAC#
Basic –> forwards traffic related to a multicast group based on MAC address (last 23 bits of IPv4 address of the group).
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Delete: Before you remove hosts from a distributed switch, you must migrate the network adapters that are in use to a different switch.To connect all network adapters of a virtual machine to a distributed port group, select the virtual machine, or select an individual network adapter to connect only that adapter.Critical impact –> iSCSI function will be interrupted.Important impact –> iSCSI function might be disrupted.No impact –> iSCSI continue normal function after new config is applied.Impact level (referred to iSCSI traffic):.Select a distributed port group and click OK.Select a VMkernel adapter and click Assign port group.From the On other switches/unclaimed list, select a physical NIC.Select the tasks for configuring network adapters:.Click New hosts, select from the hosts in your data center, and click OK.From the Actions menu, select Add and Manage Hosts.Verify that the distributed port group have active uplinks configured in its teaming and failover policy.Verify that there is at least one distributed port group on the distributed switch.Verify that enough uplinks are available on the distributed switch to assign to the physical NICs that you want to connect to the switch.Source: Add/Remove ESXi hosts from a vDS and Add/Remove uplink adapters to dvUplinkgroups In Ready to complete, review the settings you selected and click Finish.Port group name, or accept the generated name.In Edit Settings configure the distributed switch settings:.In Name and Location, type a name for the new distributed switch, or accept the generated name, and click Next.In the navigator, right-click the data center and select Distributed Switch > New Distributed Switch.Features released with later vSphere distributed switch versions are not supported. Distributed Switch: 5.0.0 –> Compatible with VMware ESXi 5.0 and later.Distributed Switch: 5.1.0 –> Compatible with VMware ESXi 5.1 and later.Distributed Switch: 5.5.0 –> Compatible with ESXi 5.5 and later.Distributed Switch: 6.0.0 –> Compatible with ESXi 6.0 and later.It’s possible define NIC teaming, failover, load balancing, VLAN, security, traffic shaping, and other policies.identify each distributed port group by using a network label.provide network connectivity to virtual machines and accommodate VMkernel traffic.At the host level, each physical NIC is connected to an uplink port with a particular ID.is a template that you use to configure physical connections of hosts as well as failover and load balancing policies.In vDS the data plane remains locally on every host that is associated with the distributed switch, and management plane is centralized per vCenter. In vSphere Standard Switch contains data plane and management plane individually. management plane is the control structure that you use to configure the data plane functionality.data plane implements the package switching, filtering,tagging, and so on.Provides centralized management and monitoring of the networking configuration of all hosts that are associated with the switch. Objective 3.1: Configure and Manage vSphere Distributed Switches (vDS) Compare and contrast vDS capabilities