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VMware’s vNetwork Distributed Switch is quite possibly the most badass new feature of the 150 new technologies in VMware vSphere, which became available last week.

Included in vSphere 4 (or VMware Infrastructure 4) Enterprise Plus edition, the feature provides a centralized point of control within VMware vCenter Server for cluster-level networking so administrators don’t have to provision network configurations for each virtual machine (VM) individually.

“So instead of going to each individual server and making sure the connections are exactly the same, vNetwork sets up cluster-level network configurations across many servers, making configurations quick and very simple,” said Leena Joshi, a product manager at VMware.

The feature is immensely useful to network administrators, because tools like Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) that move VMs from one server to another work only if every host server has the same port group and network connections, and getting all the servers configured this way is a real time suck, Joshi explained.

Check out this article talking about VMware’s vNetwork Distributed Switch, it does sound exciting, anything we can do to improve what we can achieve with the virtual infrastructure and at the same time, improve systems management has to be a good thing. I’m off to read up more about it.

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