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1: What is a virtual switch
Ans: virtual switch is same like physical switch works in Layer 2 , used to create portgroups on the host
to send and receive the traffic
2: What is a portgroup
Ans: Portgroup is seperated virtual path on the virtual switch to send and receive traffic
3: What are the types of vmkernel portgroups
Ans:
Vmkernel portgroup - mgmt traffic, vmotion , iscsi, nfs
VM portgroup -- vm network traffic
4: what is the difference between standard switch and distributed switch
Ans
1: Standard switch is a host level switch , we need to manually create portgroups and make sure they
are consistent across all the hosts in the cluster
2: Distributed switch is vcenter level switch and is common switch for multiple hosts, what ever
portgroups we create on the DVS will be same for all the hosts
3: we can avoid human errors during the portgroup creation
4: DVS will come with advanced features like port mirroring , netflow , PVLAN where these features are
not available in standard switch
5: what is netflow
with netflow we can track vm packet flow , it helps during troubleshooting
6: After vmotion , my vm has lost network connection how will you troubleshoot
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Ans:
- I will check portgroup name, VLAN ID
- Might be VLAN Trunk is missed on the physical switch port , i will check with network team
- CDP should be enabled to see the switch port info from the host ( vswitch -- nic -- details --cdp)
7: what is an UPLink
Ans: virtual neetwork interface from the ESXI host
8: which portgroup we use for vmotion
Ans: vmkernel
9 : what is a VLAN
Ans: VLAN is a virtual local area network is a private network with a network ( LAN )
for better security and better performance
10: Port binding
Ans: Logical grouping of ports for redundancy and high availability
11: what are the security policies available in the vswitch
Promiscuos mode : it is functionality to switch like a hub or switch
if we set to Accept, packet will be flooded to all the vms on that portgroup
if we set to reject , packet will be sent to the intended vm on that portgroup
12 Mac address change
If we set to accept , there will be no incoming traffic towards the vm but there will be only outgoing
from the VM
Preferred value is Reject
13: Forged Transmits
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Ans : vice versa to mac address change
If we set to accept , there will be only incoming traffic towards the vm but there will be No outgoing
from the VM
Preferred value is Reject
14: what is Nic teaming
Ans: Grouping of NiCs for redundancy
15: NiC teaming policies
Ans:
Route based on originating port ID
Route based on MAC addresss
Route based on IP hash
explicit failover
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