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1
http://download.intel.com/support/network/sb/10gbe_vsphere_wp_nal.pdf.
2
http://download.intel.com/support/network/sb/paradigmshiftdatapaper.pdf.
3
http://communities.intel.com/community/wired/blog/2010/07/07/simplify-vmware-vsphere-4-networking-with-intel-ethernet-10-gigabit-server-adapters.
4
http://www.vmware.com/.
5
Available on select Intel
®
Ethernet Controllers; see http://www.intel.com/network/connectivity/vtc_vmdq.htm.
6
Test Conguration: Ixia* IxChariot* v7.1; 16 Clients Per Port Under Test; High Performance Throughput Script; File Size = 64-1K: 1,000,000 / 2K+:10,000,000 Bytes; Buffer Sizes=64
Bytes to 64 KB; Data Type – Zeroes; Data Verication Disabled; Nagles Disabled
System Under Test: Intel
®
S5520HC (“Hanlan Creek”); two Intel
®
Xeon
®
Processors X5680 (12M Cache, 3.33 GHz, 6.40 GT/s Intel
®
QPI); Intel
®
5520 Chipset (“Tylersburg”); RAM:
12GB DDR3 @ 1333MHz; BIOS: 0050; Windows Server* 2008 R2 x64
Clients: SuperMicro* 6015T-TV; two Intel
®
Dual Core Xeon
®
processors 5160 @3.0GHz; 2 GB RAM; Intel
®
PRO/1000 PT Dual Port Server Adapter - v9.12.13.0 driver; Windows Server
2003 SP2 x64
Network Conguration: Force10 Networks* ExaScale* E1200i switch; Clients connected @ 1 Gbps
7
Page 61 Chapter 5 Advanced Networking - ESXi Conguration Guide EN-000327-00.
8
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsp_4_vmxnet3_perf.pdf.
9
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp_41_esx_server_cong.pdf.
10
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp_41_esxi_server_cong.pdf.
11
http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-3930.
12
http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere4/doc/vsp_41_new_feat.html.
13
http://www.vmware.com/les/pdf/techpaper/VMW_Netioc_BestPractices.pdf.
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