Installation Guide
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Overview
- Virtual Appliance Deployment
- Virtual Appliance Configuration
- Access the Virtual Appliance Console
- Configure the VE6120/VE6125 using the Basic Configuration Wizard
- Set up the VE6120/VE6125 Appliance using the Basic Configuration Wizard
- Upgrade the VE6120/VE6125 Software
- Set Up the Virtual Appliance to Accept USB Flash Drives
- Generate and Install the Activation Package
- Subscription License
- Permanent Capacity License
- Configure vSwitches for the Virtual Appliance
- Configure a Virtual Machine to Gain Networking Performance
- Shut Down and Restart a Virtual Machine
- Index
Configure a Virtual Machine to Gain
Networking Performance
About This Task
Configuring a virtual machine to gain more networking performance allows you to increase the
networking throughput, especially if you use 10 Gbps or faster NICs on the server.
Note
Perform this task after every .ova deployment since the settings cannot be exported with
an .ova image.
vSphere uses single receive thread and single transmit thread, regardless of the number of virtual
devices configured on it. It is necessary to scale vSphere to prevent packet loss, core overload, and
degraded performance.
This
configuration creates a special transmit queue on the host server (ESXi) per appliance data plane
networking interface. If you do not use both Port 1 and Port 2 on the appliance, the configuration can be
applied only on the port that is being used.
If there is a vNIC is overload, you can configure additional cores to parallelize the threads by using the
ethernetX.ctxPerDev command in the virtual machine file.
Note
Use this command only on vNICs that will handle high packet loads.
To configure and enable the ethernetX.ctxPerDev command on a vNIC:
Procedure
1. Shutdown the virtual machine.
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