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I understand that part, my question where does it keep the information?
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let me read the article &nbsp;:) &nbsp;thank &nbsp;you
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Thank &nbsp;you, &nbsp;if &nbsp;I understand correctly, &nbsp;if &nbsp;we have distributed switch and if &nbsp;vcenter goes down, &nbsp; VMs will be down which we created directly via Vcenter.
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I can see that Distributed Switch is configured in Vcenter level to &nbsp;mange multiple ESX hosts and configuration and put the &nbsp;information in Vcenter database. How about if vcenter goes down, how would it going to work?
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I can see that Distributed Switch is configured in Vcenter level to  mange multiple ESX hosts and configuration and put the  information in Vcenter database. How about if vcenter goes down, how would it going to work?

Vswitch  vs Distributed Switch

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

VMware

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.