VMworld 2013: Session NET5521 - vSphere Distributed Switch - Design and Best Practices

VMware vSphere Distributed switch (VDS) is the key foundational component of the virtual networking as well as the new network virtualization abstraction layer in any data center. The VDS provides simplified Management, Performance, Scale, Visibility, Troubleshooting tools and Security to the virtual network. With VDS customers have various design options available that helps them in meeting their environment requirements. In this session we will discuss the common deployments that customers are using in their environment and what parameters you should pay attention to while designing. As customers move to 10 gig NICs on their Server infrastrucutre, the traffic managment and QoS capabilites are becoming key to provide the required Service level aggreements to the critical applications and traffic types. We will explain the different traffic managment and tagging capabilities available on VDS in detail and show how you can make use of these features to provide end to end QoS

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[Udgosh]

Superb presentation. Wish there was time for some questions and answers.

[nivlock]

I agree... very informative.  I wish there was a link to the diagrams to download.