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Port Groups

What is the use of Port Groups and why we are using it ?

What is the difference between Port Groups and VLAN ? and NIC TEAMING ?

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LucD
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Virtual machine port groups provide networking for virtual machines. They are a networking concept in a vSphere environment.

See the Networking Concepts Overview.

A VLAN is a distinct broadcast domain on a layer-2 network. Network traffic over 2 different VLANs is isolated from each other. Communication between different VLANs can only be done over 1 or more routers.

You can find a good overview of these concepts in VMware Networking Best Practices, a document written by Jeff Hunter.


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