You can enable DirectPath I/O with vMotion for virtual machines in a data center on a Cisco UCS system that has at least one supported Cisco UCS Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) distributed switch.
Prerequisites
Procedure
- Locate the virtual machine in the vSphere Web Client.
- Select a data center, folder, cluster, resource pool, or host and click the Related Objects tab.
- Click Virtual Machines and select the virtual machine from the list.
- Power off the virtual machine.
- On the Manage tab of the virtual machine, select .
- Click Edit and click the Virtual Hardware tab.
- Expand the Memory section, and set the Limit to Unlimited.
- Expand the Network adapter section to configure a passthrough device.
- Next to DirectPath I/O, click Enable.
- From the network drop-down menu, select a port profile with high performance enabled and click OK.
- Power on the virtual machine.