So Duncan over at yellowbricks posted a note about Jumbo frames not being supported in vmkernel ports with ESXi. He references a SINGLE sentence in the vSphere Admin guide. I find this little nugget very distirubing for numerous reasons. First we keep being told and sold how EQUAL esxi is to esx, same hypervisor, just no service console. Second, we are told how vSphere now supports Jumbo frames, but apparently it doesn't, only ESX does. Third, the only reference to ESXi not supporting jumbo frames is this one sentence. So, is VMware just saying the FREE version of ESXi doesn't support Jumbo Frames for vmkernel ports or even licensed versions don't (kind of the way they did with the read only feature of the vMA)? I know for a fact that it works just fine, I have done numerous installs using Jumbo Frames for my vmkernel ports. So what about it is unsupported? Anybody have experience with ESXi and jumbo frames? What are your thoughts about this little gotcha?
-Craig
