Information About Port Profiles and Port Groups
A port profile is a collection of interface-level configuration commands that are combined to create a complete network policy.
A port group is a representation of a port profile on the VMware vCenter server. Every port group on the VMware vCenter server is associated with a port profile on the Cisco Nexus 1000V. Network administrators configure port profiles, and then server administrators can use the corresponding port groups on the VMware vCenter server to assign ports to port profiles.
In the VMware vCenter Server, a port profile is represented as a port group. You assign the vEthernet or Ethernet interfaces to a port group in VMware vCenter to do the following:
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Define port configuration by policy.
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Apply a single policy across a large number of ports.
Port profiles are created on the VSM and propagated to VMware vCenter Server as VMware port groups using the VMware VIM API. After propagation, a port profile appears within VMware vSphere Client and is available to apply to the vNICs on a virtual machine.