Isolating vSphere Replication Traffic

One of the new great features of vSphere Replication 6 is traffic isolation, which significantly enhances security and facilitates QoS using Network I/O Control feature.

Even though TCP/IP stacks are not useful for moving vSphere Replication traffic to separate network it is not too difficult to achieve the same result using static routes.

In this post I will show the different types of vSphere Replication traffic flows and will explain how to achieve full isolation of the replication traffic from management network.

vSphere Distributed Switch and Nexus 1000v comparison

Choosing between VMware and Cisco virtual switch products is not an easy tasks as it includes not only side-by-side feature comparison, but also numerous aspects of duty separations, operational overhead, current skill set and expertise. And not all of them can be compared directly. 

Apart from all that it can be simply a political decision to a question "Who is going to manage virtual networks?". 

In this article I am trying to provide essential information on things to help you make the right decision for your infrastructure.