Recently my colleague Venky Deshpande released  a whitepaper around VDS Best Practices. This white paper describes various architectural options when adopting a VDS only strategy. A strategy of which I can see the benefits. On Facebook multiple people made comments around why this would be a bad practice instead of a best practice, here are some of the comments: “An [...]

One of my customers experienced high CPU load on their physical switch. After some investigation they noticed broadcasts packets being sent every two seconds. The first reaction was Beacon Probing is probably enabled. Unfortunately this wasn’t the case. But VMware GSS came to the rescue and pointed us towards a KB article. Apparently a bug has been identified in 4.0 which [...]

I am just wondering if I am the only one who doesn’t understand this. I had a discussion with our vDS team around changing the dvPortgroup settings. This can only been done after the dvPortgroup has been created. On top of that it gets created with standard values of which some don’t really follow my general best practices. (For instance [...]

I receive the same question around dvSwitches almost every week; should I only use dvSwitches or go for a hybrid model? The whitepaper that has been released a couple of months ago clearly states that a hybrid model is a supported configuration but would I recommend it? Or would a pure vDS model make more senses? Let me first start [...]

I just noticed this great whitepaper on the Distributed Switch(vDS) and thought it might also be useful for you guys: http://vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere-vnetwork-ds-migration-configuration-wp.pdf This guide is intended to help users understand the various scenarios and considerations for migration to the vNetwork Distributed Switch (vDS). It also includes a step-by-step guide on migration from a Standard Switch environment to a vDS environment.