Technical White Paper – What’s New in VMware vSphere 5.5 Networking

With the release of VMware vSphere 5.5, VMware brings a number of enhancements to the networking capabilities in the vSphere platform. These enhancements enable users to manage their virtual networking infrastructure with greater efficiency and confidence. The following are the enhancements made in the vSphere 5.5 release:

• Morehashing algorithms forlink aggregation
• Morelinkaggregation groups
• Traffic-filtering support
• Differentiated ServiceCodePoint(DSCP) markingsupport
• Improved host-level packet-capture tool
• Improved single-root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) support
• 40GBnetwork adapter support

Download: What’s New in VMware  vSphere 5.5 Networking