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The Great vSwitch Debate

http://kensvirtualreality.wordpress.com/2009/03/29/the-great-vswitch-debate-part-1/


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Contents

Part 1. vSwitch Configuration

What is a vSwitch?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Link_Layer

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/802.1Q

http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/download/802.1Q-2005.pdf

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Part 2. vSwitch Security Features

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Promiscuous Mode

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=promiscuous+mode

http://www.google.com/search?q=port+mirroring


MAC Address Change

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address

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Forged Transmit

Traffic Shaping Configuration

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/219

https://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_35/esx_3/r35u2/vi3_35_25_u2_3_server_config.pdf

https://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_35/esx_3/r35u2/vi3_35_25_u2_3_server_config.pdf

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Changing_Your_MAC_Address

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARP_poisoning

Miscellaneous Security Features

Part 3. vSwitch Load Balancing

http://www.2000trainers.com/cisco-ccna-11/ccna-frame-relay-cir/

http://www.petri.co.il/traffic_shaping_with_vmware_esx_server.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGMP_snooping


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vSwitch Port Based Load Balancing


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MAC Address Based Load Balancing

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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

http://blogs.vmware.com/networking/2008/12/using-beaconing-to-detect-link-failures-or-beaconing-demystified.html

http://blogs.vmware.com/networking/2008/12/using-beaconing-to-detect-link-failures-or-beaconing-demystified.html

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Link Status Only


Which to Use?

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Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP)

Part 5. The Various Networks



VMware Management Network

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VMotion Network

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NFS Network

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cifs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_File_System_(protocol

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iSCSI Network

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Virtual Machine Network(s)

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Best Practices

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Part 6. Host Configurations

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/204347?tstart=0

http://communities.vmware.com/people/RobVM

http://communities.vmware.com/message/1226508#1226508

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Configuration with Eight pNICs and IP Storage

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http://kensvirtualreality.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/the-great-vswitch-debate%E2%80%93part-3/

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Configuration with Eight pNICs without IP Storage

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Part 7. More Host Configurations



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Configuration with Six pNICs



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Configuration with Four pNICs

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Configuration with Two pNICs

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Configuration with One pNIC

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Summary

Part 8. Naming Standards

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