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Mike Brown
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Mike Brown

Mike Brown is an army veteran and full-stack data center engineer with over 10 years in IT, with the cage nut scars to prove it. Mike has held many positions in IT, from helpdesk to systems administrator to engineer and consultant. His technical achievements include VCIX6-DCV and other VMware, Cisco, NetApp, and Microsoft certifications.
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Hersey Cartwright
Hersey Cartwright
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Hersey Cartwright

Hersey Cartwright has worked in the technology industry since 1996 in many roles, from help desk support to IT management. He first started working with VMware technologies in 2006. He is currently a Solutions Engineer for VMware, where he designs, sells, and supports VMware software-defined datacenter products in enterprise environments within the healthcare industry. He has experience working with a wide variety of server, storage, and network platforms.
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Using jumbo frames

Enabling jumbo frames on the networks that's used for vMotion or IP storage can increase performance and throughput. When jumbo frames are configured, iSCSI or NFS packets can be transferred over the network in a single frame; there is no fragmentation. This decreases the amount of CPU overhead that's necessary to encapsulate (and de-encapsulate) IP storage packets.

How to do it...

Refer the following steps to design and implement jumbo frames:

  1. Determine the use cases for enabling jumbo frames
  2. Configure the jumbo frames on virtual switches
  3. Configure the jumbo frames on VMkernel ports
  4. Ensure that jumbo frames are configured end to end on the physical network, that is, physical switches and array...
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Published in: Mar 2019Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781789801514

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Mike Brown

Mike Brown is an army veteran and full-stack data center engineer with over 10 years in IT, with the cage nut scars to prove it. Mike has held many positions in IT, from helpdesk to systems administrator to engineer and consultant. His technical achievements include VCIX6-DCV and other VMware, Cisco, NetApp, and Microsoft certifications.
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Hersey Cartwright

Hersey Cartwright has worked in the technology industry since 1996 in many roles, from help desk support to IT management. He first started working with VMware technologies in 2006. He is currently a Solutions Engineer for VMware, where he designs, sells, and supports VMware software-defined datacenter products in enterprise environments within the healthcare industry. He has experience working with a wide variety of server, storage, and network platforms.
Read more about Hersey Cartwright