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hama007
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Support ESX4 (vsphere4, vcenter) TOE NIC´s

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support ESX4 (vsphere4, vcenter) TOE NIC´s?

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AntonVZhbankov
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Yes, ESX4 supports TOE NICs.


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howie
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TOE NICs can run under vSphere 4, but we don't really offload the tcp processing to the NIC because we have not seen enough benefits of doing this across various workload. You may enable TOE in VMDirectPath mode though.

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