Value
vNIC Requirements for Amazon Web Services (AWS)
8 (See
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/
latest/UserGuide/
using-eni.html#AvailableIpPerENI
)
Max. number of vNICs per VM instance
No
vNIC Hot Add Support
No
vNIC Hot Remove Support
No
Single Root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) Support
Hypervisor vNIC Requirements for Cisco IOS XE Denali 16.3
Value
vNIC Requirements for VMware ESXi
VMXNET3ixgbe (Intel 10Gb PCI
Express NIC Driver) ixgbef
NIC Types Supported
10
Max. number of vNICs per VM instance
Yes
vNIC Hot Add Support (Intel 10Gb PCI Express NIC Driver)
No
vNIC Hot Remove Support (Intel 10Gb PCI Express NIC Driver)
Yes
Single Root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) Support
Value
vNIC Requirements for Citrix XenServer
VIF-netfront(pmap)
NIC Types Supported
7
Max. number of vNICs per VM instance
Yes
vNIC Hot Add Support
No
vNIC Hot Remove Support
Yes
Single Root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) Support
Value
vNIC Requirements for KVM
Virtio, ixgbevf, ixgbbe
NIC Types Supported
26
Max. number of vNICs per VM instance
Yes
vNIC Hot Add Support
No
vNIC Hot Remove Support
Yes
Single Root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) Support
Value
vNIC Requirements for Microsoft Hyper-V
NetVSC
NIC Types Supported
8
Max. number of vNICs per VM instance
Cisco CSR 1000v Series Cloud Services Router Software Configuration Guide
17
Cisco CSR 1000v Series Cloud Services Router Overview
Hypervisor Support