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vSphere Standard Switches: Failure detection

vSphere Standard Switches: Failure detection - vSphere Tutorial

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vSphere Standard Switches: Failure detection

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- [Rick] In this video, we'll learn how a vSphere Standard Switch can detect and respond to different types of network failures. And so let's start with a relatively simple example. Here we see an ESXi host with a set of physical adapters, and these right here are my VMNICs. These are the physical adapters of my ESXi host. And each of these physical adapters has been assigned to this particular vSphere Standard Switch. So each VMNIC can only be assigned to a single virtual switch. Virtual switches cannot share VMNICs. So in this slide, I have a virtual switch with three VMNICs, that means this virtual switch has three physical uplinks into the physical switch. And at the moment, our network is in a healthy state, so all three of my adapters are connected and all three of them have a nice little green link light, all of my VMNICs are working well. And then I've got a virtual machine. And so when I have a virtual switch with multiple physical adapters, it's going to automatically…

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