Hey Everyone,
Are there features that are dependant on distributed switches you can't get with standard switches in vSphere 5?
Thanks,
Matthew
Bidirectional traffic shaping, Netflow, Port Mirror, NIOC, PVLANs are some that come to mind.
you can find the information at KB Overview of vNetwork Distributed Switch concepts
Yes, lots.
Load Based Teaming, Network IO Control, Storage IO Control to name some of the nicer ones.
Typically I would use standard switches in a management cluster and distributed switches for the production clusters.
Cheers,
Paul