VMware vSphere Distributed Switch
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VMware vSphere Distributed Switch is a centralized virtual networking construct in vSphere that provides consistent, policy-based network configuration and management across multiple ESXi hosts.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| vSphere Distributed Switch | 3 |
| VMware vSphere Distributed Switch canonical | 1 |
| vSphere Network I/O Control version 3 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9632494 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: VMware vSphere Distributed Switch Context triple: [VMware ESXi, supports, VMware vSphere Distributed Switch]
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A.
VMware NSX
VMware NSX is a network virtualization and security platform that enables software-defined networking, micro-segmentation, and automated network provisioning in virtualized and cloud environments.
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B.
VMware vSphere
VMware vSphere is VMware’s flagship virtualization and cloud computing platform for building and managing virtualized data centers and private clouds.
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C.
VMware vSAN
VMware vSAN is a software-defined storage solution that integrates with VMware vSphere to pool and manage local storage resources across a cluster of ESXi hosts for virtualized workloads.
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D.
VMware ESXi
VMware ESXi is a bare-metal hypervisor from VMware that enables virtualization by running multiple virtual machines directly on server hardware without a traditional underlying operating system.
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E.
vCenter Server
vCenter Server is VMware’s centralized management platform that allows administrators to configure, monitor, and manage multiple vSphere virtualized environments from a single interface.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: VMware vSphere Distributed Switch Target entity description: VMware vSphere Distributed Switch is a centralized virtual networking construct in vSphere that provides consistent, policy-based network configuration and management across multiple ESXi hosts.
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A.
VMware NSX
VMware NSX is a network virtualization and security platform that enables software-defined networking, micro-segmentation, and automated network provisioning in virtualized and cloud environments.
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B.
VMware vSphere
VMware vSphere is VMware’s flagship virtualization and cloud computing platform for building and managing virtualized data centers and private clouds.
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C.
VMware vSAN
VMware vSAN is a software-defined storage solution that integrates with VMware vSphere to pool and manage local storage resources across a cluster of ESXi hosts for virtualized workloads.
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D.
VMware ESXi
VMware ESXi is a bare-metal hypervisor from VMware that enables virtualization by running multiple virtual machines directly on server hardware without a traditional underlying operating system.
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E.
vCenter Server
vCenter Server is VMware’s centralized management platform that allows administrators to configure, monitor, and manage multiple vSphere virtualized environments from a single interface.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
networking feature
ⓘ
virtual switch ⓘ |
| abbreviation | VDS ⓘ |
| advantageOver |
per-host switch configuration
ⓘ
vSphere Standard Switch ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
vSphere Distributed Switch
ⓘ
linked to:
VMware vSphere Distributed Switch
|
| comparedWith | vSphere Standard Switch ⓘ |
| configuredIn | vCenter Server ⓘ |
| developedBy | VMware ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
distributed port group
ⓘ
dvUplink ⓘ uplink port group ⓘ |
| introducedIn |
vSphere 4.0
ⓘ
linked to:
VMware vSphere
|
| managedBy | vCenter Server ⓘ |
| partOf | VMware vSphere ⓘ |
| provides |
centralized management across multiple ESXi hosts
ⓘ
centralized virtual networking ⓘ policy-based network configuration ⓘ |
| replacedBy | vSphere Distributed Switch 7.0 enhanced features ⓘ |
| requires | vCenter Server license ⓘ |
| supports | multiple ESXi hosts ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
Cisco Discovery Protocol
ⓘ
Configuration backup and restore ⓘ ERSPAN-based port mirroring ⓘ LACP ⓘ Link Layer Discovery Protocol ⓘ
linked to:
Link Layer Topology Discovery
Load-based teaming ⓘ NetFlow ⓘ Network I/O Control ⓘ Network health check ⓘ Network resource pools ⓘ Network rollback ⓘ Port security policies ⓘ Private VLANs ⓘ Traffic shaping ⓘ port mirroring ⓘ vSphere Network I/O Control version 3 ⓘ
linked to:
VMware vSphere Distributed Switch
|
| supportsManagement |
centralized monitoring and troubleshooting
ⓘ
consistent network policies across hosts ⓘ |
| supportsVersion |
vSphere 5.x
ⓘ
vSphere 6.x ⓘ vSphere 7.x ⓘ vSphere 8.x ⓘ |
| usedFor |
IP storage traffic
ⓘ
VMkernel networking ⓘ fault tolerance traffic ⓘ management traffic ⓘ vMotion traffic ⓘ vSAN traffic ⓘ virtual machine networking ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: VMware vSphere Distributed Switch Description of subject: VMware vSphere Distributed Switch is a centralized virtual networking construct in vSphere that provides consistent, policy-based network configuration and management across multiple ESXi hosts.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: VMware vSphere Distributed Switch
linked to: VMware vSphere Distributed Switch
linked to: VMware vSphere Distributed Switch
linked to: VMware vSphere Distributed Switch