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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.