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thrtnastrx
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Network rate in millibits?

ESXi 6.7 just noticed that the Network Performance in Monitor mistakenly labels the throughput in "millibits" (with a lower case "m") as opposed to "megabits" (with a capital "M").  This is not the case in Disk Performance page where the measure is in "Megabytes" (capital MB).

Am I wrong?

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ashilkrishnan
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Hi @thrtnastrx ,

To begin with, Megabits are used to describe network speed and Megabytes are used to describe storage/disk speeds.

Based on this document - ESXi Network Performance, network is measured in 'Megabits per second' on ESXi hosts.

It seems like that's how network graphs are labelled(mbps) on ESXi hosts as I see the same behavior in 7.0 as well. 

Hope that helps

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