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Properties

The Properties pane displays the properties of Virtual Standard Switches or Virtual Distributed Switches.

vSwitch Properties

The following vSwitch properties indicate port number characteristics:

Number of Ports

Indicates the current number of ports of the Virtual Distributed Switch or Virtual Standard Switch.

Maximum Number of Ports

Indicates the maximum number of ports of the Virtual Distributed Switch.

Note: For Virtual Distributed Switches, this information is only available on the VMware datacenter level. On the ESX host level, it is not available.

Port Group Properties

The following port group property indicates the VLAN ID:

VLAN ID

Indicates the VLAN ID of a port group.

Port Properties

The following properties specify port characteristics:

VLAN ID

Indicates the VLAN ID of a port.

Type

Indicates the type of a port, for example, VMkernel Port or Service Port.

Network Properties

The following properties specify network characteristics of the virtual switch:

• IPv4 Address
• IPv6 Address
• MAC Address

Virtual Machine Counts

The following values provide statistical information about VMs associated with a port group.

• Powered On
• Powered Off
• Suspended
• Unknown