vSwitches are software-based switches that resides in the VMkernel and provides traffic management for virtual machines.
As you can see in the screenshot below, you can manage all the settings via the vSphere Client or vCenter.
What does virtual switches actually really do?
It provides communication between all the virtual machines within an ESX/ESXi host and physical servers on the network.
That’s it?
Nope, there’s more. It also provides the connectivity for VMKernel access to networks for VMotion, iSCI, NFS, or Fault Tolerance (FT).
More to come on how to configure vSwitch.
