Port mirroring from a Cisco Switch to a virtual machine on a VMWare ESXi host

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Problem:
I needed to capture all traffic from a particular network port (an IP phone system connected to a Cisco SG300 switch) and mirror this data to a virtual machine in our virtual infrastructure.  So effectively I needed to setup port mirroring from a physical network port to a VMWare ESXi virtual machine.

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