An engineer must configure a VDS port group using APIC policy. The requirements are for the frames to be mapped to a particular Layer 2 network and for the virtual machine assigned to the port group t

Forged transmits is a security policy that determines whether the VM guest operating system is allowed to send frames with a MAC address different from its own, which is unrelated to receiving all frames or mapping to a Layer 2 network.

VMDirectPath, also known as PCIe Passthrough, allows a VM to directly access a physical PCIe device, bypassing the hypervisor's virtual switch, which is for direct hardware access, not for general virtual switch network configuration.

Port binding (static or dynamic) is a crucial VDS setting that determines how a virtual machine's network adapter connects to a specific port on the virtual switch. This binding ensures that the VM is correctly associated with the configured Layer 2 network (e.g., VLAN or EPG) defined by the port group policy within APIC.

Promiscuous mode, when enabled on a VDS port group, allows a virtual machine to receive all traffic traversing the virtual switch to which the port group belongs, not just traffic destined for its own MAC address. This directly addresses the requirement for the VM to receive 'all frames passed on the virtual switch'.

While VLANs are fundamental for defining a Layer 2 network, 'VLAN' itself is the network segmentation mechanism, whereas 'port binding' is the setting that associates the VM with that VLAN-configured port group, and 'promiscuous mode' handles the 'receive all frames' requirement.