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 ====== Interfaces, VSwitches and Port Groups ======
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+If you are like me, and used earlier versions of VMWare (ver4) then version 6 might be a little confusing when it comes to the networking architecture. When I used to use older versions of VMWare (never used vCenter) you just as signed a physical interface to a VM. While you can still do this, it's not as obvious how to do it.
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+Consider my example below, I three servers, all connected to a switch, and I am passing multicast traffice between them, that is being processed in a particular way at each stage. Basically I want an input, two processing stages, a storage device and an output.
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+Each server (VM) has three interfaces, Management, Data In and Data Out. The reality is that for this example, on my physical server I will be using only two physical interfaces, one for management and one for data.
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+However, to be able to share and manage these interfaces, we need to create some Virtual Switches, and Port Groups.