Setup Jumbo Frames on vSphere 5 via GUI

July 21, 2011

In pre vSphere 5 if you would like to enable Jumbo Frames (MTU 9000) on your ESX/ESXi host you had to tun command:

esxcfg-vswitch -m

In vSphere 5 you can do it from GUI (vSphere client), Right clicking on Properties of your vSwitch in General tab at bottom you can change MTU setting.

[box type=”warning”] MTU size for Jumbo Frames is 9000 and remember – whole network stack has to support Jumbo Frames beginning from ESX(i) server –> network switches ends on storage (iSCSI or NFS), if you want to take advantages from Jumbo Frames [/box]

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Artur Krzywdzinski

Artur is Consulting Architect at Nutanix. He has been using, designing and deploying VMware based solutions since 2005 and Microsoft since 2012. He specialize in designing and implementing private and hybrid cloud solution based on VMware and Microsoft software stacks, datacenter migrations and transformation, disaster avoidance. Artur holds VMware Certified Design Expert certification (VCDX #077).