Section 4.2. Network Traffic Shaping


4.2. Network Traffic Shaping

ESX Server allows you to control certain aspects of network traffic on your virtual machines. ESX Server can control three areas of outgoing network traffic:

  • Average bandwidth

  • Peak bandwidth

  • Burst size

To enable network traffic shaping, open the details page of the virtual server you want to configure. Click the Network tab. Mark the check box to Enable Traffic Shaping and place the values you want in the appropriate boxes (see Figure 4.1).

Figure 4-1. Enabling Network Traffic Shaping


The values you choose can be bits per second, kilobits per second, or megabits per second. Behind the scenes, this selection essentially enables the nfshaper module. To read more about nfshaper, at the command line of your ESX Server type:

 #man nfshaper 




Virtualization With VMware ESX Server
Configuring VMware ESX Server 2.5 (Vol 1)
ISBN: 1597490199
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 173

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