In this chapter, we will cover the tasks related to networking performance design. You will learn the following aspects of networking performance design:

• Designing a vSphere Standard Switch for load balancing and failover
• Designing a vSphere Distributed Switch for load balancing and failover
• What to know when offloading checksum
• Selecting the correct virtual network adapter
• Improving performance through VMDirectPath I/O
• Improving performance through NetQueue
• Improving network performance using the SplitRx mode for multicast traffic
• Designing a multi-NIC vMotion
• Improving network performance using network I/O control
• Monitoring network capacity and performance matrix