In a data center environment that hosts several virtual machines, EVS makes some of the network administration tasks simpler by providing the following benefits:
Creates a virtual network between VMs that are on multiple servers thus providing network connectivity
Supports addition of virtual ports with custom SLAs
Provides network isolation by using VLANs or VXLANs
Supports multitenant virtual networks that share the same underlying infrastructure
Integrated with Oracle Solaris Zones and Oracle Solaris Kernel Zones
Provides centralized management of:
MAC address and IP address for the virtual ports
SLAs on a per-virtual-switch or per-virtual-port basis
Monitoring runtime network traffic statistics of the virtual ports