Deployment Guide

12 Network Partition (NPAR) Technology and VMware Virtual Switch comparison using QLogic BCM57800 | version 1.0
Figure 6 shows the VDS port group Traffic Shaping settings in VMware vSphere 6.0 with the top status set to
Enabled and the remaining three fields in each section configured to allow the maximum throughput possible.
Adjust these fields in production environments based on business needs after determining an I/O profile for
the application(s) utilizing the VM, VMkernel port or VDS port group.
VMware’s VDS Traffic Shaping Policy