vSphere Host Resources Deep Dive: Part 3 – VMworld
In my previous post, I mentioned the part 3 of the Host Deep Dive session at VMworld 2018. The '3' is because we ran the part 1 and 2 at VMworld…
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…
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…
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…