Which feature provides centralized management of networking across multiple ESXi hosts?

Which feature provides centralized management of networking across multiple ESXi hosts?

• A. vMotion
• B. DRS
• C. vDS
• D. vSAN

Answer: (C)

Centralized networking across multiple ESXi hosts is achieved with the VMware Distributed Virtual Switch. A distributed switch is configured from vCenter and spans all hosts in a cluster, so you set up port groups, uplinks, NIC teaming, and security policies once and those settings apply consistently to every host. This makes it much easier to migrate VMs between hosts and scale the environment, since network configuration isn’t done per host. In contrast, vMotion moves running VMs between hosts, DRS balances compute resources, and vSAN handles storage, none of which provide centralized network management across multiple ESXi hosts.

Centralized networking across multiple ESXi hosts is achieved with the VMware Distributed Virtual Switch. A distributed switch is configured from vCenter and spans all hosts in a cluster, so you set up port groups, uplinks, NIC teaming, and security policies once and those settings apply consistently to every host. This makes it much easier to migrate VMs between hosts and scale the environment, since network configuration isn’t done per host. In contrast, vMotion moves running VMs between hosts, DRS balances compute resources, and vSAN handles storage, none of which provide centralized network management across multiple ESXi hosts.