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Solarflare Server Adapter User Guide
Solarflare Adapters on VMware
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5.2 VMware Feature Set
Table 61 lists the features available from the VMware host. The following options
can also be configured on the guest operating system:
• Jumbo Frames
• Task Offloads
• Virtual LANs (VLANs)
Table 61: VMware Host Feature Set
Jumbo frames Support for MTUs (Maximum Transmission Units) from
1500 bytes to 9000 bytes.
• See Adapter MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) on
page 283
Task offloads Support for TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO), Large
Receive Offload (LRO), and TCP/UDP/IP checksum
offload for improved adapter performance and reduced
CPU processing requirements.
• See TCP/IP Checksum Offload on page 285
• See TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO) on page 285
NetQueue Support for NetQueue, a performance technology that
significantly improves performance in 10 Gigabit
Ethernet virtualized environments.
• See VMware ESX NetQueue on page 282
Teaming Improve server reliability by creating teams on either
the host vSwitch, Guest OS or physical switch to act as a
single adapter, providing redundancy against single
adapter failure.
• See Configuring Teams on page 267
Virtual LANs (VLANs) Support for VLANs on the host, guest OS and virtual
switch.
• See Configuring VLANs on page 268
PXE booting Support for diskless booting to a target operating system
via PXE boot.
• See Sfboot: Command Line Options on page 272
• See Solarflare Boot Manager on page 374