In the VMware vSwitch – the baseline of simplicity post I described simple layer-2 switches offered by most hypervisor vendors and the scalability challenges you face when trying to build large-scale solutions with them. You can solve at least one of the scalability issues pretty easily: VM-aware networking solutions available from most data center networking vendors dynamically adjust the list of VLANs on server-to-switch links.
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