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there are limits to the l exibility. Table 5.2 lists some of the coni guration maximums for vSphere
Distributed Switches.
Figure 5.69
When a distributed
port group is cre-
ated with PVLANs,
the distributed port
group is associated
with both the pri-
mary VLAN ID and
a secondary
VLAN ID.
Table 5.2:
Confi guration maximums for ESXi networking components (vSphere
Distributed Switches)
Configuration Item
Maximum
Switches per vCenter Server
128
Maximum ports per host (vSS/vDS)
4096
vDS ports per vCenter instance
60000
ESXi hosts per vDS
1000
Static port groups per vCenter instance
10000
Ephemeral port groups per vCenter instance
1016
VMware vSphere also lets you use compatible third-party distributed switches in your
vSphere environment. Before we move into some options available for third-party distributed
virtual switches in your environment, we'd like to i rst discuss one i nal advanced networking
feature in vSphere: support for Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP).
Confi guring LACP
Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) is a standardized protocol for supporting the
aggregation, or joining, of multiple individual network links into a single, logical network link.
