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Mike Brown
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Mike Brown

Mike Brown is an army veteran and full-stack data center engineer with over 10 years in IT, with the cage nut scars to prove it. Mike has held many positions in IT, from helpdesk to systems administrator to engineer and consultant. His technical achievements include VCIX6-DCV and other VMware, Cisco, NetApp, and Microsoft certifications.
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Hersey Cartwright
Hersey Cartwright
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Hersey Cartwright

Hersey Cartwright has worked in the technology industry since 1996 in many roles, from help desk support to IT management. He first started working with VMware technologies in 2006. He is currently a Solutions Engineer for VMware, where he designs, sells, and supports VMware software-defined datacenter products in enterprise environments within the healthcare industry. He has experience working with a wide variety of server, storage, and network platforms.
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Using private VLANs

Private VLANs are an extension of the VLAN standard. PVLANs can be configured on virtual distributed switches to isolate traffic between virtual machines in the same VLAN.

How to do it...

Refer the following steps to design a private VLAN scheme:

  1. Identify the types of private VLANs that are available and the functionality of each
  2. Determine the use cases for the PVLANs and identify whether the PVLANs can be used to satisfy the design requirements
  3. Design the PVLANs to meet the design requirements

How it works...

A primary PVLAN is created on a vDSwitch...

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Published in: Mar 2019Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781789801514

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Mike Brown

Mike Brown is an army veteran and full-stack data center engineer with over 10 years in IT, with the cage nut scars to prove it. Mike has held many positions in IT, from helpdesk to systems administrator to engineer and consultant. His technical achievements include VCIX6-DCV and other VMware, Cisco, NetApp, and Microsoft certifications.
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Hersey Cartwright

Hersey Cartwright has worked in the technology industry since 1996 in many roles, from help desk support to IT management. He first started working with VMware technologies in 2006. He is currently a Solutions Engineer for VMware, where he designs, sells, and supports VMware software-defined datacenter products in enterprise environments within the healthcare industry. He has experience working with a wide variety of server, storage, and network platforms.
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