http://blog.vmpros.nl It's all about virtualization... Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:32:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blog.vmpros.nl/2009/09/22/vmware-performance-evaluation-of-vmxnet3-virtual-network-device/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://blog.vmpros.nl/2009/09/22/vmware-performance-evaluation-of-vmxnet3-virtual-network-device/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:27:00 +0000 Daniel Buonocore http://blog.vmpros.nl/2009/09/22/vmware-performance-evaluation-of-vmxnet3-virtual-network-device/ vSphere 4.0 introduces a new para-virtualized network device – VMXNET3.  We recently published a paper demonstrating its performance characteristics, compared to that of enhanced VMXNET2 (the previous generation of high performance virtual network device from VMware). Some highlights of this paper are: (1) Throughput gains of up to 92% for 10G TCP/IPv4 Rx workloads with [...]]]> http://blog.vmpros.nl/2009/09/22/vmware-performance-evaluation-of-vmxnet3-virtual-network-device/feed/ 0