frankdenneman Frank Denneman is the Chief Technologist for AI at VMware by Broadcom. He is an author of the vSphere host and clustering deep dive series, as well as a podcast host for the Unexplored Territory podcast. You can follow him on Twitter @frankdenneman

ESX 4i support Jumbo Frames

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Last week I blogged about jumbo frames being unsupported in ESX 4i.
Yesterday Charu Chaubal, Sr. Technical Marketing Architect at VMware blogged the following;

I am happy to say that this is merely an error in the documentation. In fact, ESXi 4.0 DOES support Jumbo Frames on VMkernel networking interfaces. The correction will hopefully appear in a new release of the documentation, but in the meantime, go ahead and configure Jumbo frames for your ESXi 4.0 hosts.

http://blogs.vmware.com/esxi/2009/12/esxi-40-supports-jumbo-frames.html
Although Jumbo frames being unsupported might not be an adopion blocker, this is quite good news for companies willing to use ESX 4i.

frankdenneman Frank Denneman is the Chief Technologist for AI at VMware by Broadcom. He is an author of the vSphere host and clustering deep dive series, as well as a podcast host for the Unexplored Territory podcast. You can follow him on Twitter @frankdenneman