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The Complete VMware vSphere Guide
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The Complete VMware vSphere Guide

by Mike Brown, Hersey Cartwright, Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Karel Novak, Paolo Valsecchi
November 2019
Beginner content levelBeginner
768 pages
32h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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How it works…

Traffic shaping is used to limit the amount of bandwidth that's available to virtual switch ports. NIOC is used to apply limits and to guarantee traffic to different virtual network service types.

Traffic shaping can be configured on vSwitches, vDSwitch uplinks, VMkernel interfaces, and PortGroups to restrict the network bandwidth available to the network ports on the virtual switch. Traffic shaping is applied at all times, regardless of the amount of network capacity available. This means that if traffic shaping is enabled and configured on a virtual switch or PortGroup to limit the peak bandwidth to 1,048,576 Kbps (1 Gbps), only 1,048,576 Kbps of bandwidth will be used, even if more bandwidth is available.

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