VMware vSphere® is constantly evolving to add many new features and functionality to incorporate the latest technology, and one area of this trend is network performance. vSphere supports a variety of network interface controllers (NICs). Each NICs primary job is to deliver packets in and out of the host; however, NICs also include technology that vSphere can leverage to perform network transfer faster and more efficiently.
This technical white paper examines scenarios of virtual machines sending and receiving network traffic across different hosts and how vSphere can take advantage of the NIC technology to improve network performance in a vSphere environment.
