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

Enable high performance network I/O on at least one Cisco UCS port profile on a supported Cisco VM-FEX distributed switch. For supported switches and switch configuration, see documentation at the CIsco Web site http://www.cisco.com/go/unifiedcomputing/b-series-doc .

Procedure

  1. Locate the virtual machine in the vSphere Web Client.
    1. Select a data center, folder, cluster, resource pool, or host and click the Related Objects tab.
    2. Click Virtual Machines and select the virtual machine from the list.
  2. Power off the virtual machine.
  3. On the Manage tab of the virtual machine, select Settings > VM Hardware.
  4. Click Edit and click the Virtual Hardware tab.
  5. Expand the Memory section, and set the Limit to Unlimited.
  6. Expand the Network adapter section to configure a passthrough device.
  7. Next to DirectPath I/O, click Enable.
  8. From the network drop-down menu, select a port profile with high performance enabled and click OK.
  9. Power on the virtual machine.