Configuring security, traffic shaping, teaming, and failover on a vSphere Standard Switch
The security, traffic shaping, teaming, and failover settings function in the same manner for a standard vSwitch and a vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS or dvSwitch), with a couple of exceptions regarding traffic shaping and load balancing methods. Unlike a standard vSwitch, a VDS can handle both ingress and egress traffic shaping. VDS also has a load balancing method called route based on physical NIC load. We learn more about dvSwitch in the next chapter. In this section, we will learn how to configure security, traffic shaping, team and failover on a vSphere Standard Switch.
How to do it...
The following procedure will help you configure security, traffic shaping, teaming, and failover on vSwitch:
- Log in to the vSphere web client, navigate the vCenter inventory and select the ESXi host to create the vSphere Standard Switch on.
- With the ESXi host selected, navigate to
Configure|Networking|Virtual switches...
