VMware vSphere
VMware ESXi
The configuration of each standard switch resides on the specific ESXi host. The vSphere administrators have to manually maintain consistency of the standard vSwitch configuration across all ESXi hosts to ensure that they can perform operations such as vMotion. (Switch and Portgroup names must be identical)
vSwitches are configured independently on each ESXi host.
The configuration of vDS is centralized to vCenter Server. The ESXi hosts that belong to a dvSwitch do not need further configuration to be compliant.
Distributed switches provide similar functionality to vSwitches. dvPortgroups is a set of dvPorts. The vDS equivalent of portgroups is a set of ports in a vSwitch. Configuration is inherited from dvSwitch to dvPortgroup, just as from vSwitch to Portgroup.
Virtual machines and VMKernel interfaces can be connected to dvPortgroups just as they could be connected to portgroups in vSwitches.
Administrative rights are required to create these virtual adapters on each ESXi host dvSwitch in vCenter Server: