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‎11-15-2007 12:44 PM

jumbo frames for nfs?

We are running a 3.02 cluster. We have Netapp Filers. Running approximately 16 VMs so far. VMs are on nfs exported volumes. Everything is working well so far. We are steadily adding VMs, and I am curious if enabling jumbo frames on our nfs vlan will have any performance benefits as we continue to grow.

TIA

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Jae_Ellers
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‎11-15-2007 02:21 PM

Short answer = no.

This is a target feature for ESX 3.5. Currently the only support for jumbo frames comes by using iSCSI w/ the Qlogic iSCSI HBAs and configuring the filers, switches, & hbas to use the jumbo frames.

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