Deployment Guide

9 Network Partition (NPAR) Technology and VMware Virtual Switch comparison using QLogic BCM57800 | version 1.0
Figure 4 shows the VSS Traffic Shaping tab in VMware vSphere 6.0U1 with the status set to “enabled” and
the remaining three fields set to allow the maximum throughput of the network adapter. 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 VSS port group.
VMware’s standard VSS traffic shaping policy