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VMware vSphere Design Essentials

By : Swapnil A Kambli, Puthiyavan Udayakumar
Book Image

VMware vSphere Design Essentials

By: Swapnil A Kambli, Puthiyavan Udayakumar

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (13 chapters)
VMware vSphere Design Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Network configuration limits


The following limits represent the achievable maximum configuration limits for networking in an infrastructure:

Component

Configuration

For physical NIC, this is the number of e1000e 1 Gb Ethernet ports

24

For physical NIC, this is the number of igb 1 Gb Ethernet

16

For physical NIC, this is the number of tg3 1 Gb Ethernet

32

For physical NIC, this is the number of bnx2 1 Gb Ethernet

16

For physical NIC, this is the number of nx_nic 10 Gb Ethernet ports

8

For physical NIC, this is the number of be2net 10 Gb Ethernet ports (Serverengines)

8

For physical NIC, this is the number of ixgbe 10 Gb Ethernet ports

8

For physical NIC, this is the number of bnx2x 10 Gb Ethernet ports

8

For physical NIC, this is the number of Infinib and ports

1

For physical NIC, this is the number of combinations of 10 Gb and 1 Gb Ethernet ports maximum can be configured

Eight 10 Gb and four 1 Gb ports

For physical NIC, this is the number of mlx4_en 40 Gb...