As indicated in the previous chapter, the Security, Traffic Shaping, Teaming and Failover mechanisms function identically on both standard and distributed switches, with vDS offering additional features and enhancements. You should have already had a glimpse of these settings if you read the Creating Distributed Port Groups recipe. In this recipe, we will see where we can configure these settings on a vDS—or more precisely, on a dvPortGroup that has already been created.
It is important to note that these settings cannot be configured on the vDS itself but only on the dvPortGroups.
The How it works... section of this recipe explains the impact of each of these settings on the network traffic.