Chapter 3. Networking Performance Design

In this chapter, we will cover the tasks related with networking performance design. You will learn the following aspects of networking performance design:

  • Designing a network for load balancing and failover for vSphere Standard Switch
  • Designing a network for load balancing and failover for vSphere Distributed Switch
  • What to know when offloading checksum
  • Selecting the correct virtual network adapter
  • Improving performance through VMDirectPath I/O
  • Improving performance through NetQueue
  • Improving network performance using the SplitRx mode for multicast traffic
  • Designing a multi-NIC vMotion
  • Improving network performance using network I/O control
  • Monitoring network capacity and performance matrix

Introduction

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