VCP4 Exam Cram: VMware Certified Professional, Second Edition

Chapter 3. vNetworking Operations

This chapter covers the following VCP exam topics:

• Port Trunking

• 802.1Q VLAN Tagging

• vNetwork Distributed Switches

• Virtual Ports

• Virtual Port Groups

• VMDirectPath

• Internal vSwitch

• Single Adapter vSwitch

• Multiple Adapter vSwitch

• Standard Virtual Switches (vSS)

• Physical Switches

• VMkernel

• Service Console

• Virtual Machines

• vCenter Object

• dvPort Groups

• dvPorts

• Trunk Ports

• Private VLANs

• NIC Teaming

• Port Blocking

• vSwitch Maximum Ports

• vSwitch Connection Types

(For more information on the VCP exam topics, see “About the VCP Exam” in the introduction.)

Just as physical machines connect to physical networks, virtual machines connect to virtual networks. ...

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