VXLAN Offloading Support
Modern physical NICs (pNIC) have several offloading capabilities. If you are running VMware NSX, which is using VXLAN, you could benefit from the VXLAN offloading feature. Using VXLAN offloading allows…
IoT – Everything and everyone smartly connected
The subject Internet of Things (IoT) is intriguing to me, both from a technical and personal point-of-view. IoT to me is where all current cloud initiatives and network virtualization innovations come…
VXLAN and Multiple Receive Threads explained
The (Dynamic) NetQueue feature in ESXi, which is enabled by default if the physical NIC (pNIC) supports it, allows incoming network packets to be distributed over different queues. Each queue…
Using CPU limits in vCloud for NFV
Looking at the VMware vCloud for NFV proposition, you will notice that vCloud Director (vCD) is one of the options for the Virtualized Infrastructure Manager (VIM) layer based on the…
VMworld 2017 session picks
VMworld is upon us. The schedule builder went live and boy am I excited about VMworld 2017! SER1872BU This year Frank and I are presenting the successor of last years…
Virtual Machine Tx threads explained
Looking at the ESXi VMkernel network path you will notice it consists of Netpoll threads and Tx threads. Netpoll threads receive traffic from an ESXi host perspective where Tx threads…