The following procedure will guide you through the steps involved in Configuring Security, Traffic Shaping, Teaming, and Failover on a vSphere Standard Switch:
- Log in to the vCenter Server by using either of the following methods:
- Use the HTML5 client.
- From the Hosts and Clusters inventory view, select the ESXi host to create the vSwitch on.
- Navigate to Configure | Networking | Virtual switches, select the desired vSwitch, and click Edit...:
- Use the Security section of the Edit Settings window to configure the desired Promiscuous mode, MAC address changes, and Forged transmits policies for the vSwitch:
- Use the Traffic shaping section to control the Average/Peak bandwidth and the burst size of the Egress traffic:
- Use the Teaming and failover section to specify load balancing and other desired configuration:
This completes the process of Configuring Security, Traffic Shaping, Teaming, and Failover on vSphere Standard Switches.
We will deep dive into each of these settings in Chapter 4, Configuring Network Access Using vSphere Distributed Switches, where we will compare them with the vSphere Distributed Switch.