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Virtual switch features in vSphere 6.7

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Virtual switch features in vSphere 6.7

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- [Instructor] In this video, we'll learn about some of the features that can be provided with vSphere standard and vSphere distributed virtual switches. And some of these features are unique to the distributed switch only. So with vSphere, there's two different types of virtual switches. The standard virtual switch comes with all licensing editions and it has a basic feature set whereas the vSphere Distributed Switch has an enhanced feature set and is only available with the Enterprise Plus licensing edition. So I'll differentiate between the two as we go through all of these features and learn about them. And the first feature that we're going to talk about here is discovery protocols, either CDP or LLDP. CDP stands for Cisco Discovery Protocol and LLDP stands for Link Layer Discovery Protocol. And these are useful features that have been around for a long time on physical networking hardware. What these…

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