Distributed Switches verse Standard Switches

[juchestyle]

Hey Everyone,

Are there features that are dependant on distributed switches you can't get with standard switches in vSphere 5?

Thanks,

Matthew

[vmroyale]

Bidirectional traffic shaping, Netflow, Port Mirror, NIOC, PVLANs are some that come to mind.

[siairani]

you can find the information at KB Overview of vNetwork Distributed Switch concepts

[logiboy123]

Yes, lots.

Load Based Teaming, Network IO Control, Storage IO Control to name some of the nicer ones.

Typically I would use standard switches in a management cluster and distributed switches for the production clusters.

Cheers,

Paul