Tag: hardware acceleration
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Port Groups not Work with VLAN Tag on Cisco Switch
Few weeks ago, I tried to standardize networking of a cluster, there were 4 VLANs for production virtual machines, I binded the VLANs on one virtual switch which had 4 physical vmnic. Then I created 4 port groups with different VLAN ID, but for some reason virtual machines unreachable via some vmnics. Network team verified port channel…
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Extend ATS capability VMFS5 datastore maybe failed
A lot of storage support hardware acceleration, it is able to offload some storage operation from ESXi 5.x host to storage filer, the feature can significantly improve performance during cloning, vMotion, coping…etc. Different storage device may support different features of hardware acceleration, block device have block zero, full copy, hardware assisted locking, thin provisioning, NAS device…