minimize the vswitch ports

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Made by me anything or anything to go by uping vswitch vmkernal ports

The place, I started to 256 ports and I'm not sure what that who bought us?

Is there a security risk which was cuased by doing this?

Hello

Made by me anything or anything to go by uping vswitch vmkernal ports

Not really just more ports to place virtual machines.

The place, I started to 256 ports and I'm not sure what that who bought us?

Just more ports for placing virtual machines on the vSwitch.

Is there a security risk which was cuased by doing this?

Since there is no granularity with the VIC to i ' VMs vSwitches DMZ admins, etc. You can use the switch ports to limit that, if the vSwitch is complete so there is no way a virtual machine can go overboard.

Other than that, I don't know of security issues to have too many switch ports.

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