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Option Description
Failback
Select Yes, No, or Inherit from vSwitch to disable or enable failback.
This option determines how a physical adapter is returned to active duty
after recovering from a failure. If failback is set to the default seing of Yes,
the adapter returns to active duty immediately upon recovery, displacing
the standby adapter that took over its slot, if any. If failback is set to No, a
failed adapter is left inactive even after recovery until another currently
active adapter fails, requiring its replacement.
Failover Order
Specify how to distribute the workload for uplinks. If you want to use
some uplinks but reserve others for emergencies in case the uplinks in use
fail, set this condition by moving them into dierent groups:
n
Active Uplinks. Continue to use the uplink when the network adapter
connectivity is up and active.
n
Standby Uplinks . Use this uplink if one of the active adapter’s
connectivity is down.
N When using IP-hash load balancing, do not congure standby
uplinks. You cannot congure failover order if any of the port group
components are congured to inherit the conguration from the associated
virtual switch.
7 (Optional) To congure trac shaping, expand  shaping, click Enabled, and specify the
following parameters.
Option Description
Average Bandwidth
Establishes the number of bits per second to limit across a port, averaged
over time—the allowed average load.
Peak Bandwidth
The maximum number of bits per second to limit across a port when it is
sending/receiving a burst of trac. This is the maximum bandwidth used
by a port whenever it is using its burst bonus.
Burst Size
The maximum number of bytes to limit in a burst. If this parameter is set, a
port might gain a burst bonus when it does not use all its allocated
bandwidth. Whenever the port needs more bandwidth than specied by
Average Bandwidth, it might be allowed to temporarily transmit data at a
higher speed if a burst bonus is available. This parameter represents the
maximum number of bytes that might be accumulated in the burst bonus
and so transferred at a higher speed.
Trac shaping policy is applied to the trac of each virtual network adapter aached to the virtual
switch.
8 Click Save to apply your changes.
Remove a Virtual Machine Port Group in the VMware Host Client
You can remove port groups from virtual switches in case you no longer need the associated labeled
networks.
Prerequisites
Verify that there are no VMkernel NICs and no powered-on virtual machines connected to the port group
that you want to remove.
Procedure
1 Click Networking in the VMware Host Client inventory and click Port groups.
2 Right-click the port group that you want to remove and select Remove from the pop-up menu.
3 Click Remove to remove the port group.
4 (Optional) Click Refresh to verify that you have removed the port group.
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