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By Thibault Bouchette

How to capture traffic with VMware VDS and Skylight?

Most of your critical application traffic does not reach your physical network infrastructure anymore: it is carried by virtual switches inside your VMware farm.

To run diagnostics, you need to capture this virtual traffic: how can you do that?

How do you capture traffic with VMware? It can be a puzzle
How do you capture traffic with VMware? It can be a puzzle

VMware VDS (Virtual Distributed Switch) natively integrates capabilities to mirror traffic; this feature can be used by network analysis device for troubleshooting purposes.

This short video shows how you can set up a VMware vSphere Distributed Switch and SkyLIGHT PVX to visualize traffic & performance metrics between virtual machines.