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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. Now we could just create one port group and assign that group to all of the data interfaces, but this is not a real world use case, and it limits our flexibility.
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+Look at the diagram below.
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+Above we can see that there are four port groups (in Orange) and they are in a virtual switch, and there are three management interfaces in vSwitch0.
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+From the ESXi application (not the Web UI) we can see the following (you can get this in the Web UI, i prefer this layout).
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+Above we can see the following:
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+There are two virtual switches (vSwitch0 is created by default)
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+vSwitch0 contains a Port Group called VM Network (created by default)  and has the following interfaces from the VMs.
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+vSwitch DATA SW contains the following Port Groups
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+Each of these Port Groups contains a data interface from each VM.
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