Nexus 1000v components

N1KV consists of VSMs and VEMs. While VEMs are software elements that reside inside the hypervisor, running as a part of the VMware ESXi kernel, the VSM is deployed as a virtual appliance. Have a look at the following figure for more details:

Nexus 1000v components

The highlighted components in the preceding figure are explained in the following sections.

The Virtual Ethernet Module

The VEM runs as a part of the VMware ESXi kernel. It uses the VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch (vDS) API to provide advanced networking capabilities to VMs.

The VEM provides advanced networking functions, such as Quality of Service (QoS), security features, and monitoring ...

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