Administration Guide › Managing Virtual Environments › VMware vSphere and vCenter Server › Virtual Standard Switches and Virtual Distributed Switches in the vNetwork Panel › Properties › Policies

Policies

The following list contains default policies or enabled policies for Virtual Standard Switches or Virtual Distributed Switches.

Promiscuous Mode

Indicates whether or not all traffic is seen on the port.

MAC Address Changes

Indicates whether or not the Media Access Control (MAC) address can be changed.

Forged Transmit

Indicates if the MAC address is different to the MAC address of the virtual network adapter.

Traffic Shaping

Indicates whether or not traffic shaper is enabled on the port.

Average Bandwidth

Indicates the average bandwidth in bits per second if shaping is enabled on the port.

Peak Bandwidth

Indicates the peak bandwidth during bursts in bits per second if traffic shaping is enabled on the port.

Burst Size

Indicates the maximum burst size allowed in bytes if shaping is enabled on the port.

Network Failure Detection

Indicates whether network failure detection is enabled. Valid values are:

• false (1)
• true (2)

Notify Switches

Specifies whether or not to notify the physical switch if a link fails

Fallback

Indicates if fallback is enabled.

Policy Inbound Frames

Indicates whether or not the teaming policy is applied to inbound frames.

Active Adapters

Displays a list of active network adapters used for load balancing.

Standby Adapters

Displays a list of standby network adapters used for failover.