To enable jumbo frames. Since Jumbo Frames are not enabled by default. It can’t since when you install ESXi 4, by default there is only one vSwitch and console and then you only start to build your network configuration. And you will not want to enable jumbo frames for ALL your networks and switches neither. […]
Jumbo frames are supported only on VMxnet 3 and enhanced VMxnet
VMXNET and VMXNET3 are the only adapters that works with Jumbo Frames. If you trying to configure and use Jumbo frames to optimize your VI infrastructure, you should only use vmxnet (and vmxnet3) virtual adapters for that. The other adapters seems to accept the configuration for the MTU, but they’re not actually working like they […]