Module 11: Scalability Lesson 3: vNetwork Distributed Switches Flashcards
(16 cards)
How many hosts can a single distributed switch support?
350
A distributed virtual switch supports both ______ and ______ physical network interface cards.
A distributed virtual switch supports both 1GbE and 10GbE physical network interface cards.
What happens when a client, connected to a distributed virtual switch, is migrated with vMotion?
The distributed port migrates with the client
What does the vNetwork Appliance API offer?
It allows third-party developers to create distributed virtual switch solutions
The association of physical adapters to distributed virtual switch uplink groups must be done on what?
The host
What two planes does the distributed virtual switch consist of?
The control plane and the I/O plane
Where does the control plane reside?
vCenter Server
What does the control plane do?
It is responsible for configuring distributed virtual switches, distributed port groups, distributed ports, uplinks, NIC teaming
Where does the I/O plane reside?
The VMkernel of each ESX/ESXi host
What does the I/O plane do?
It is responsible for forwarding packets
What three operation modes does CDP have?
Listen mode
Advertise mode
Both mode
How often do advertisements of Cisco equipment typically occur?
Once a minute
Which Netowrk I/O Control enabled, what resource pools are distribute virtual switch traffic divided into?
FT, iSCSI, vMotion, management, NFS and virtual machine
Where, in Center, do you enable Network I/O Control?
Home > Inventory > Networking
What kind of features do distributed virtual switches have that standard virtual switches do not?
Load-based teaming, network vMotion, vNetwork switch APIs, inbound traffic shaping
When you migrate a VM with vMotion, what moves with the virtual machine?
The distributed port statistics and policies
