You can understand the following networking information of a vCenter in the Networking view:

▪Virtual Standard Switches and the Port-Groups that these switches have

▪Virtual Distributed Switches and the Port-Groups and Uplink Port Groups that these switches have

▪Port-Groups and their connected VMs

Proceed with the following steps to view VMware networks:

1.Click Network on the taskbar, select ESXi from the Category drop-down menu and then select Networking from the View drop-down menu.
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2.View the context maps of a node. The context maps vary based on different nodes.

Example: Context Maps for the Virtual Distributed Switch node.

▪VDS to Layer 2 Neighbor — displays all connected Layer 2 neighbors of this VDS.

▪VDS and ESXi Host — displays the ESXi hosts that the VDS runs on.

For more context maps of a node, see Context Maps of vCenter Nodes for details.