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)

VDS Best Practice Examples for 1 & 10 Gbe

I find that there is a lot of 'best practice' articles and opinions out there around vSwitches on either 1Gbe or 10Gbe interfaces.  This article is the best that I have seen on the subject.  Very informative.

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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...

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