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Ingress and Egress Traffic Shaping
The terms Ingress source and Egress source are with respect to the VDS. For example: Ingress – When you want to monitor the traffic that is going out of a virtual machine towards the VDS, it is called...
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Private VLAN’s
Private VLANs are used to solve VLAN ID limitations and waste of IP addresses for certain network setups. PVLANs segregate VLANs even further than normal, they are basically VLANs inside of VLANs. The...
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VDS Port Group – Port Bindings
There are 3 types of Port Binding Static Binding Dynamic Binding Ephemeral Binding Static Binding When you connect a virtual machine to a port group configured with static binding, a port is...
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Port Group Security
Security Options Promiscuous Mode Promiscuous mode eliminates any reception filtering that the virtual network adapter would perform so that the guest operating system receives all traffic observed on...
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Choosing a network adapter for your virtual machine
When creating a Virtual machine, VMware will normally offer you several choices of network adaptor depending on what O/S you select. Network Adaptor Types Vlance – An emulated version of the AMD 79C970...
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VMware NIC Teaming Settings
Benefits of NIC teaming include load balancing and failover: However, those policies will affect outbound traffic only. In order to control inbound traffic, you have to get the physical switches...
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Configure Port Groups to properly isolate network traffic and VLAN Tagging
VLANs provide for logical groupings of stations or switch ports, allowing communications as if all stations or ports were on the same physical LAN segment. Confining broadcast traffic to a subset of...
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