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VMWare ESXi and a hardware iSCSI question: disabling jumbo frames

 
chuckk281
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VMWare ESXi and a hardware iSCSI question: disabling jumbo frames

 Timo had a customer that wanted to disable the Jumbo frame setting of the LOMs on the G7 blades:

 

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  • If VMWare ESXi does not support jumbo frames, is there’s a way to disable it with Virtual Connect ?

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They disabled Jumbo frames at the switch.

 

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Now we want to disable Jumbo frame in ESXi.

 

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Ramu had a suggestion:

 

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Can see below VMware KB article and set MTU to 1500?

 

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1007654

 

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Have you done this successfully? How did you do it?