Network I/O Control (NIOC)

The health check is the last part of the Settings option, and we move to the Resource Allocation option where the first option is the System traffic. The entire network resource allocation and management is provided by a function called NIOC.

When you are using NIOC v3, you can manage the network resources, such as shares, reservations, and limits in a similar way like resource pools for computing. NIOC is a vDS only feature that allows the VMware administrator to prioritize the different type of network traffic.

Network traffic can be managed using the same resources concepts also used for CPU and memory (for example in the resources pools):

  • Limit: The maximum bandwidth that a system traffic type can consume ...

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