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TCP/IP stacks

Before vSphere 6.0, the TCP/IP configuration was mainly managed by a single network stack. But now we can have multiple and different TCP/IP stacks (also called netstacks) for different VMkernel interfaces. These are the built-in TCP/IP stacks available in vSphere:

Default TCP/IP stack: General-purpose stack that can be used for any VMkernel service.
vMotion TCP/IP stack: Stack optimized for vMotion. The goal is to fully isolated vMotion traffic. Once used, the vMotion traffic will be removed from the default TCP/IP stack.
Provisioning TCP/IP stack: Dedicated stack that is used to isolate several VM operations as migrations, cloning, or traffic generated by snapshots.

By using a separate TCP/IP stack, you can handle different ...

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