Hey Guys
Could you please help me to understand how the packet flow will work from VM in one Host to VM in other Host
I wanted to understand more about what will happen when virtual switch will see the traffic and pass it to physical switch
I understand packet will follow as below
Example :VM1 > vSwtich > ESX1NIC > PSwtich > ESX2NIC > vSwtich > VM2
Both VM are in same Subnets and a single physical switch is connected to both ESXi's
VM1 packet will contain
VM1 Source MAC
VM1 Source IP
VM2 Destination MAC
VM2 Source IP
The process of packet flow ( as per my understanding, please correct if wrong):
1. As the vswtich does not find entry in its MAC cache, it forwards the traffic to pSwtich via ESX1NIC
2. pSwtich will have MAC entry of the destination VM2 which will be mapped to the port of the ESX2NIC
3. pswtich will forward the traffic to vSwtich of ESX2 and vSwtich will lookup its MAC Cache and forward the packet to destination VM2
Questions :
1. will Physical Switch have MAC entry of multiple VM's residing on vSwtich mapped to a single physical port?
Thank-you in advance
Packet Flow from VM in one Host to VM in other Host
Message was edited by: SK21090