VMware vSphere: Advanced Networking

Deepen your understanding of how to work with vSphere—a leading virtualization platform from VMware—by diving into advanced topics and concepts.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know

1. Command Line

• Use esxcli
• Use vsish
• Use esxtop
• Perform packet captures

2. Physical NICs

• Use the hardware compatibility list
• Installing drivers
• Understanding NetQueue and RSS
• Configuring VMDirectPath I/O
• Use SR-IOV

3. Distributed Switch Filters

• Understand dvFilters
• Configure multicast filters

4. vNICs

• Understand the types of vNICS
• vmxnet3 features

Conclusion

• Next steps