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Bandwidth Allocation Parameters for Virtual Machine Trac
Network I/O Control version 3 allocates bandwidth to individual virtual machines based on configured
shares, reservation, and limit for the network adapters in the VM hardware settings.
Table 112. Bandwidth Allocation Parameters for a VM Network Adapter
Parameter for Bandwidth Allocation Description
Shares The relative priority, from 1 to 100, of the traffic through this VM
network adapter against the capacity of the physical adapter that
is carrying the VM traffic to the network.
Reservation The minimum bandwidth, in Mbps, that the VM network adapter
must receive on the physical adapter.
Limit The maximum bandwidth on the VM network adapter for traffic
to other virtual machines on the same or on another host.
Admission Control for Virtual Machine Bandwidth
To guarantee that sufficient bandwidth is available to a virtual machine, vSphere implements admission
control at host and cluster levels based on bandwidth reservation and teaming policy.
Bandwidth Admission Control in vSphere Distributed Switch
When you power on a virtual machine, the Network I/O Control feature on a distributed switch verifies that
these conditions are satisfied on the host.
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A physical adapter on the host can supply the minimum bandwidth to the VM network adapters in
accordance with the teaming policy and reservation.
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The reservation for a VM network adapter is less than the free quota in the network resource pool.
If you change the reservation for a network adapter of a running virtual machine, Network I/O Control
verifies again whether the associated network resource pool can accommodate the new reservation. If
the pool does not have enough unclaimed quota, the change is not applied.
To use admission control in vSphere Distributed Switch, perform the following tasks:
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Configure bandwidth allocation for the virtual machine system traffic on the distributed switch.
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Configure a network resource pool with a reservation quota from the bandwidth configured for virtual
machine system traffic.
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Associate the network resource pool with the distributed port group that connects the virtual machines
to the switch.
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Configure the bandwidth requirements of a virtual machine connected to the port group.
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