TCP

When it comes to the virutalisation , there are considerations for performance. There are options which are enabled by default which makes sense for laptops and even desktops. A VM, however, may not benefit and in fact may see performance loss. One such feature is TCP Chimney offload. TCP Chimney offload is designed to free up CPU utilization and increase network throughput by moving TCP processing tasks to hardware. This frees up the server’s CPU for other tasks. This makes sense if consider the available processors, ram and types of tasks running. Chances are a VM is only performing a…