Wednesday, February 2, 2011

New in VMware vSphere 4.0

Virtual NICs:
Vlance = Virtualized AMD 79C970 PCnet32 LANCE NIC
VMXNET = Optimized NIC for ESX 2.x
Flexible = Reports as a Vlance during VM boot but initializes as Vlance or VMXNET, depending on which driver is loaded for it
E1000 = Virtualized 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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