February 2011
Intermediate to advanced
600 pages
14h 22m
English
book
VMware ESX and ESXi in the Enterprise: Planning Deployment of Virtualization Servers, 2nd Edition
by Edward Haletky
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Chapter 7. Networking
As mentioned in Chapter 1, “System Considerations,” there are certain best practices in relation to networking, particularly the physical network interface card (pNIC) count associated with ESX and ESXi with respect to use of 1Gb, 10Gb, and Converged Network Adapters (CNAs) such as those used with Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). We look at networking in more detail to explain the capabilities of ESX and ESXi in this arena. In this chapter, we begin with some of the basic building blocks that make up a virtual and physical network. Then we turn to network definitions and generally how everything is recommended to be connected. In this section, we will also discuss the differences between ESX and ESXi and how VMware vShield, ...