VMware vSpere 5.5 was released in September 2013 and introduced a couple of improvements to the networking capabilities of the vSphere platform.
These enhancements could be resumed as follows:
- More hashing algorithms for link aggregation
- More link aggregation groups
- Traffic-filtering support
- Differentiated Service Code Point (DSCP) marking support
- Improved host-level packet-capture tool
- Improved single-root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) support
- 40GB network adapter support
Today VMware published a paper titled: “What’s New in VMware vSphere 5.5 Networking” that resumes and briefly explains all this new features.
The paper contains the following sections:
- VMware vSphere Distributed Switch Enhancements
- Link Aggregation Control Protocol
- Traffic Filtering
- Quality of Service Tagging
- Troubleshooting and Performance Enhancements
- Enhanced Host-Level Packet-Capture Tool
- 40GB Network Adapter Support
- Single-Root I/O Virtualization Enhancements