Yesterday we finally were able to share the news that our new VMware vSphere 6.7 Clustering Deep Dive book is released. Countless hours have gone into it; researching, writing content,…
TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO) is the equivalent to TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) but more modeled to virtual environments, where TOE is the actual NIC vendor hardware enhancement. It is also…
The VMkernel is relying on the physical device, the pNIC in this case, to generate interrupts to process network I/O. This traditional style of I/O processing incurs additional delays on…
Looking at the IT infrastructure at several production sites within my customer's organization, we quickly noticed IT infrastructure components (mainly compute and storage related) that were not up to par…
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…