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View TCP/IP Stack Configuration on a Host
You can view the DNS and routing configuration of a TCP/IP stack on a host. You can also view the
IPv4 and IPv6 routing tables, the congestion control algorithm, and the maximum number of allowed
connections.
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Change the Configuration of a TCP/IP Stack on a Host
You can change the DNS and default gateway configuration of a TCP/IP stack on a host. You can
also change the congestion control algorithm, the maximum number of connections, and the name
of custom TCP/IP stacks.
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Create a Custom TCP/IP Stack
You can create a custom TCP/IP stack on a host to forward networking traffic through a custom
application.
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Remove a VMkernel Adapter
Remove a VMkernel adapter from a vSphere distributed or a standard switch when you no longer
need the adapter. Make sure that you leave at least one VMkernel adapter for management traffic
on the host to keep the network connectivity up.
VMkernel Networking Layer
The VMkernel networking layer provides connectivity to hosts and handles the standard system traffic of
vSphere vMotion, IP storage, Fault Tolerance, vSAN, and others. You can also create VMkernel adapters
on the source and target vSphere Replication hosts to isolate the replication data traffic.
TCP/IP Stacks at the VMkernel Level
Default TCP/IP stack Provides networking support for the management traffic between
vCenter Server and ESXi hosts, and for system traffic such as vMotion, IP
storage, Fault Tolerance, and so on.
vMotion TCP/IP stack Supports the traffic for live migration of virtual machines. Use the vMotion
TCP/IP to provide better isolation for the vMotion traffic. After you create a
VMkernel adapter on the vMotion TCP/IP stack, you can use only this stack
for vMotion on this host. The VMkernel adapters on the default TCP/IP
stack are disabled for the vMotion service. If a live migration uses the
default TCP/IP stack while you configure VMkernel adapters with the
vMotion TCP/IP stack, the migration completes successfully. However, the
involved VMkernel adapters on the default TCP/IP stack are disabled for
future vMotion sessions.
Provisioning TCP/IP
stack
Supports the traffic for virtual machine cold migration, cloning, and
snapshot migration. You can use the provisioning TCP/IP to handle
Network File Copy (NFC) traffic during long-distance vMotion. NFC
provides a file-specific FTP service for vSphere. ESXi uses NFC for
copying and moving data between datastores. VMkernel adapters
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