VLAN Design Translation for VMware: Physical Trunks, Port Groups, and Guest Tagging

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VLAN issues in VMware environments are rarely caused by one mysterious setting. More often, they come from a translation problem. The network team thinks in terms of access ports, trunks, allowed VLAN lists, native VLANs, port channels, and upstream gateways. The virtualization team thinks in terms of vSwitches, distributed port groups, VMkernel adapters, VM network […]

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