As a VM moves from host to host on a vNetwork Distributed Switch. Networking vMotion – Networking vMotion tracking virtual machine networking state. Networking vMotion is used in Distributed switch only. Inbound traffic shaping is possible to apply in distributed switch only. vSphere Distributed switch include rollback and recovery for patching and updating network configuration, templates to enable backup and restore for virtual networking configuration. vSphere Distributed switch given priority to traffic and allows other network streams to utilize available bandwidth. It Provides centralized management and monitoring of the network onfiguration of all the ESXi hosts that are associated with the dvswitch.
Distributed switches allow different hosts to use the switch as they exist in same host. vSphere Distributed switch on a datacenter to handle the networking configuration of multiple hosts at a time from a central place. VSphere Distributed switch allows a single virtual switch to connect multiple Esxi hosts. Networking vMotion is not available in standard switch. Inbound traffic shaping is not available as a part in standard switch. we can create and manage vSphere standard switch independently on ESXi host. Standard switch is created in host level i.e. This is one of the real advantages for standard switch users.
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Standard switch does not require Enterprise plus licensing for usage. vSphere standard switch bridge traffic internally between virtual machines in VLAN. Standard switch works with only with one ESXi host. VSphere Standard Switch is used to provide network connectivity for hosts, virtual machines and to handle VMKernel Traffic.