Checksum calculations are offloaded from encapsulated packets to the virtual device emulation and you can run RSS on UDP and ESP packets on demand.
With ESXi 6.7 Update 3, the following is introduced: Guest encapsulation offload and UDP, and ESP RSS support to the Enhanced Networking Stack (ENS).
We are introducing enhancements to VMXNET3. With vSphere 6.7 Update 3, the usage of Dynamic DNS will be supported! As DNS changes are common in customer data centers, the VCSA will have the ability to register itself dynamically on DNS servers. When the vCenter Server appliance (VCSA) was installed with a dynamic IP using a DHCP server, and the VCSA IP changes, the DNS records needed to be manually adjusted to make sure the hostname is correctly resolved. Prior to Dynamic DNS, administrators were required to manually configure the records stored by DNS servers. Read all about this new feature in this extensive blog post.ĭynamic DNS (DDNS) defines a protocol for dynamically updating a DNS server with new data. However, when required to change the PNID post-installation, you will be able to do so with this release. The general recommendation is to use the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) of the vCenter Server instance. PNID (Primary Network IDentifier of vCenter Server) is the “system name” set in the installer when deploying vCenter Server. AMD and VMware recently announced a close collaboration to deliver support for new security and other features of the high-performance 2 nd Gen AMD EPYC processors in a future version of VMware vSphere. The vSphere 6.7 U3 release will be compatible with the 2nd Generation of AMD EPYC™ processors. VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 3 will introduce support for multiple NVIDIA GRID virtual GPUs (vGPU) per virtual machine to enable more graphics and compute intensive workloads running on vSphere. You will be able to configure up to four NVIDIA vGPUs connected to one virtual machine. This will enable partners and customers to scale graphics and compute application performance and dramatically speed up machine learning jobs.
This new vSphere release comes with enhancements that will continue to deliver on our goal of providing a highly performant, efficient and more secure hybrid cloud platform to our partners and customers. Next to various enhancements and driver updates, we again will include new features into this release for simplified operations and increased performance. If that plan works, developers will ask for vSphere rather than ops teams telling developers they need to play by the rules imposed on the datacentre.We are excited to announce the future release of VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 3. VMware's hope for Tanzu Community Edition is that developers take it for a spin and see that it offers them an easier and faster way to develop and deploy apps, generating demand for vSphere and the Tanzu platform. Execs admit that the company's approach of selling its containerised wares by targeting operations teams, and showing them that vSphere can manage containers alongside VMs, has had limited success – we're told Pivotal had just 300 or so substantial customers. That also gives developers time to play with VMware's new Tanzu Community Edition. Once a fixed version of the update emerges, there will still be plenty of time for its wide and enthusiastic adoption before the November 2022 end-of-life for vSphere 6.7.
Thankfully, the release emerged in late September 2021, and most VMware users don't rush to upgrade because vSphere is not the sort of tech that can be taken lightly.