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Different Kinds of Adapter while installing VM
17 August 2010
Different Kinds of Adapter while installing VM
Vlance — This network adapter is not optimized but will work will a wide variety of guest operating systems, except Windows Vista.
vmxnet — This network adapter is optimized. It requires that VMware tools be installed
within the guest operating system.
• Flexible — This network adapter is able to be used with or without VMware tools being
installed within the guest operating system. Without VMware tools or an older version of
VMware tools installed, it uses the Vlance adapter. With newer versions of VMware tools,the vmxnet adapter is used.
• e1000 — This network adapter is widely supported by guest operating systems. It's performs in the range between the Vlance adapter and the vmxnet adapter.
• Enhanced vmxnet — This is a high-performance network adapter. It supports the use of
jumbo frames and TCP/IP Segmentation Offload (TSO). However, it only has limited guest operating system support.
For each NIC you choose you must select the appropriate virtual switch to connect it to. You also must click the check box if you want the virtual NIC to be connected to that virtual switch when the VM is powered on.
Power On Virtual Machine := Ctrl + B
You can configure the VM with 1, 2 or 4 vCPUs providing the server will support that configuration. You must have a VMware SMP license in order to operate a 2 or 4 vCPU configured VM.
In 3.x, all VM MACs and virtual switch ports are assigned the 00:50:56 prefix.
Each virtual SCSI controller can control up to 15 SCSI devices
Virtual disks can be added while the VM is running.
Vlance — This network adapter is not optimized but will work will a wide variety of guest operating systems, except Windows Vista.
vmxnet — This network adapter is optimized. It requires that VMware tools be installed
within the guest operating system.
• Flexible — This network adapter is able to be used with or without VMware tools being
installed within the guest operating system. Without VMware tools or an older version of
VMware tools installed, it uses the Vlance adapter. With newer versions of VMware tools,the vmxnet adapter is used.
• e1000 — This network adapter is widely supported by guest operating systems. It's performs in the range between the Vlance adapter and the vmxnet adapter.
• Enhanced vmxnet — This is a high-performance network adapter. It supports the use of
jumbo frames and TCP/IP Segmentation Offload (TSO). However, it only has limited guest operating system support.
For each NIC you choose you must select the appropriate virtual switch to connect it to. You also must click the check box if you want the virtual NIC to be connected to that virtual switch when the VM is powered on.
Power On Virtual Machine := Ctrl + B
You can configure the VM with 1, 2 or 4 vCPUs providing the server will support that configuration. You must have a VMware SMP license in order to operate a 2 or 4 vCPU configured VM.
In 3.x, all VM MACs and virtual switch ports are assigned the 00:50:56 prefix.
Each virtual SCSI controller can control up to 15 SCSI devices
Virtual disks can be added while the VM is running.
