How to implement traffic shaping for certain group of VM in ESXi 4

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uhm.. yes that is why it is always displayed as 1.4 GBps on the 32 bit VM.

is that right implementation in the vswitch setting ?

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Yes, that should limit all incoming and outgoing traffic to that VM at 1024kbps. However, the last setting is in kbytes, not kbits. That shouldn't matter as the peak speed will never be exceeded, but I just wanted to point it out.

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thanks for the reply Paul,

what does it means by "line" speed ?
I'm trying to test the slowness link (end to end / client server) simulation form this 32 bit VM and 32 bit physical machine.

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oh.. so in this case i shall use dvSwitch ? instead of normal vswitch ?

doh.. i only have license for VSphere essential, that doesn't include dVswitch....

The line speed, in your case, is 10 gig. Since this is the only VM on the vSwitch, this shouldn't matter as it is not doing VM to VM traffic.

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ok, suppose there is another VM in this vswitch, then the communication between them is shaped into 1 MBps ?

thanks for the reply.

egress this means exitting the ESXi right ?

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