Deployment Guide

3 Network Partition (NPAR) Technology and VMware Virtual Switch comparison using QLogic BCM57800 | version 1.0
Table of contents
Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
1 Overview ....................................................................................................................................................................... 4
2 QLogic BCM57800 Series NPAR with VMware’s VSS ................................................................................................ 5
3 VMware’s VSS with traffic shaping............................................................................................................................... 8
4 VMware VDS with traffic shaping ............................................................................................................................... 11
5 A VMware VDS with VM network resource pools ...................................................................................................... 14
6 Conclusion .................................................................................................................................................................. 16
A Component Revisions ................................................................................................................................................ 17
B Additional Information ................................................................................................................................................. 18