VMware vSphere Essentials: A Practical Approach to vSphere Deployment and Management

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L. PatrãoVMware vSphere Essentialshttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0208-9_5

5. vSphere Networking

Luciano Patrão¹  

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Selfkant, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

 

The initial network configurations covered in Chapter 4 were only to access the ESXi host. We now need a network for our virtual machines, storage, and so forth. This chapter discusses vSphere networking and demonstrates how it works in ESXi.

5.1 vSphere Virtual Network

In Figure 5-1 we see a physical and a virtual network Architecture and as you will learn in this book, they work differently.

A layout titled ...