Sunday, January 24, 2010

Virtual NICs

Virtual NICs:
Vlance = Emulated AMD 79C970 PCnet32 LANCE NIC
VMXNET = Optimized NIC for ESX 2.x
Flexible = Reports as Vlance during VM boot & initialize as Vlance or VMXNET depending on which OS driver initializes it
E1000 = Emulated Intel 82545EM Gb Ethernet NIC for newer OS
VMXNET2 (Enhanced) = Supports Jumbo Frames & TSO
VMXNET3 = Next gen paravirtualized NIC, supports multiqueue, IPv6 offloads, MSI/MSI-X
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