Deployment Guide

16 Network Partition (NPAR) Technology and VMware Virtual Switch comparison using QLogic BCM57800 | version 1.0
6 Conclusion
Dell EMC’s standards-based NPAR technology in VMware’s vSphere ESXi 6.0 hypervisor provides the
opportunity to engineer bandwidth on a granular basis. This allows any enterprise to customize their network
to meet their traffic needs. Traffic shaping customization, along with a detailed I/O profile study, ensures that
administrators proactively address all aspects of bandwidth allocation rather than responding to them
reactively. This application note shows that, yes, NPAR adds another level of complexity to the initial
configuration and management of Dell blade servers. However, NPAR also allows the administrator to add
more uplink ports to the OS without requiring a server to have more PCIe slots. This can lower a data center’s
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) immediately if more ports are needed but not bandwidth. NPAR also can
increase Return on Investment (ROI), leveraging the advantages of Dell blade servers, including:
 Scalable, flexible networking
 Increased I/O control
 Highly efficient shared-infrastructure solutions