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The object of this chapter of [[VMware Server 2.0 Essentials]] is to provide an overview of the various components which combine make up virtual networks within a VMware Server 2.0 based environment.

In a physical network configuration, a switch is typically a hardware device which is used to provide a central point of network connectivity for network clients. The devices on a network connected to a switch using twisted pair cabling. When a client sends a network packet to another device on the network, the switch checks the packet for the MAC address of the destination device and fowards the packet to the port to which that device is connected.

To identify the switch to which a particular virtual machine is connected, select the machine from the ''Inventory'' and refer to the ''Hardware'' panel of the ''Summary'' page. Any ''Network Adapter'' entries will list the name of the network to which that virtual network adapter is connected, which may then be cross referenced with the host information obtained above to identify the corresponding virtual switch (in this case vmnet0).