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Enabling Intel NIC (82579LM) on Intel S1200BT under ESXi 5.1 | Virtual Drive
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Random ramblings about virtualization, finance, India and more! Skip to primary content. Enabling Intel NIC (82579LM) on Intel S1200BT under ESXi 5.1. November 16, 2012. Important: the following steps replace the default VMware driver for Intel NICs. If you don’t want to do that, stop here. Again this should not be used for production ESXi servers, useful only for homelab environments. Here are the steps to enable the Intel NIC 82579LM:. Download the alternate driver for Intel NIC e1000 (82579LM) here.
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VMXNET3 vs E1000E and E1000 – part 2 | Rickard Nobel
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VMXNET3 vs E1000E and E1000 – part 2. November 8, 2014. Network performance with VMware paravirtualized VMXNET3 compared to the emulated E1000E and E1000. In the first article. The general difference between the adapter types was explained. In this article we will test the network throughput in the two most common Windows operating systems today: Windows 2008 R2. And Windows 2012 R2. And see the performance of the VMXNET3. To generate large amounts of network traffic I used the iperf. As noted in the Tas...