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Private VLANs

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Private VLANs

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- [Instructor] In this video, I'll explain private VLANs. Private VLANs are a feature that's supported on the vSphere distributed switch, and they can be used to isolate traffic within a VLAN. So for example, in this slide we see virtual machines that are all on the same network, the 10.1.1.0 network. Now maybe these virtual machines are owned by different departments or different tenants, and we need to create some sort of isolation between them. All of our virtual machines are in primary VLAN 10, but secondary VLANs have also been created. And two of these VMs are in an isolated secondary VLAN. Now that means that these virtual machines can only communicate with virtual machines that are connected to promiscuous ports. Even virtual machines within the same secondary isolated VLAN cannot communicate with each other. They can only communicate to VMs that are connected to a promiscuous port. So maybe the two virtual…

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