Eric Sloof - NTPRO.NL

ESXi Learnswitch is a complete implementation of MAC Learning and Filtering and is designed as a wrapper around the host virtual switch. It supports learning multiple source MAC addresses on virtual network interface cards (vNIC) and filters packets from egressing the wrong port based on destination MAC lookup.


This substantially improves overall network throughput and system performance for nested ESX and container use cases.

vSAN is a hypervisor-converged, software-defined storage solution for the software-defined data center. It is the first policy-driven storage product designed for VMware vSphere environments that simplifies and streamlines storage provisioning and management.

vSAN is a distributed, shared storage solution that enables the rapid provisioning of storage within VMware vCenter Server as part of virtual machine creation and deployment operations.

vSAN requires a correctly configured network for virtual machine I/O as well as communication among cluster nodes. Since the majority of virtual machine I/O travels the network due to the distributed storage architecture, highly performing and available network configuration is critical to a successful vSAN deployment.


This paper gives a technology overview of vSAN network requirements and provides vSAN network design and configuration best practices for deploying a highly available and scalable vSAN solution.

This course highlights the new features and enhancements in vSphere 6.5. It also presents use cases that describe how the new features align with customer needs.

This course begins by discussing VMware vCenter and VMware vSphere administration. To simplify what’s new in vSphere 6.5, we can break the advancements down into three primary categories under vSphere and vCenter server administration. 

• First, we have dramatically simplified the administrator’s experience which makes IT more efficient than ever before. 
• Second, we have added comprehensive built-in security into vSphere 6.5 to secure your entire data center. 
• And the third is that it provides a universal application platform giving you the ability to run any application, anywhere.

At the end of this course, you should be able to:

• Explain the important functional and architectural changes in vSphere 6.5
• Identify high-level capabilities that arise from the functional changes
• Identify new use cases that are now feasible with vSphere 6.5
• Outline the new features in related software-defined data center products that are now enabled with vSphere 6.5 enhancements

This video provides instructions on how to configure the software iSCSI adapter in the VMware Host Client version 1.8.0 and later