Virtual Distributed Switch Best Practices - Complete Series

A very comprehensive best practice guide for virtual distributed switches has been provided by VMware in a 6 part series on their Networking Blog. This is an end to end guide from design considerations to operational best practices.

VDS Best Practices - Design Considerations (Part 1 of 6)

VDS Best Practices - Virtual and Physical Switch Parameters (Part 2 of 6)

VDS Best Practices - Rack Server Deployment with Eight 1 Gigabit adapters (Part 3 of 6)

VDS Best Practices - Rack Server Deployment with Two 10 Gigabit adapters (Part 4 of 6)

VDS Best Practices - Blade Server Deployments (Part 5 of 6)

VDS Best Practices - Operational aspects (Part 6 of 6)

Webinar - Building Next Generation Virtualized Data Centers with VXLAN

Join Arista and VMware technical leaders as we go in-depth into the new Virtual eXtensible LAN technology -VXLAN.  VXLAN delivers on the ability to execute Stateful Layer-3 vMotion's - the live migration of a workload to any server in the network, at any time, in seconds, regardless of the IP addressing topology of your infrastructure.  VXLAN overcomes the segmentation boundaries and broadcast domain constraints of 802.1q VLANs, replacing them with a more granular and scalable model for segmentation and scaling.  In this session you will learn about VXLAN, the framing format, encapsulation mechanism, how to prepare

the network and infrastructure, and how to operate and troubleshoot this environment.

register here

read more about VXLAN

VDS Best Practices - Design Considerations

Design Considerations

Three main aspects influence the design of a virtual network infrastructure:

1)   Customer’s infrastructure design goals

2)   Customer’s infrastructure component configurations

3)   Virtual infrastructure traffic requirements

Let’s take a look at each of these aspects in a little more detail...

more