Vmware Esx Multicast Support

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Understanding IP Multicast in ESXi/ESX (2044735) - VMware

    https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2044735
    In vSphere, vSwitches do not involve themselves in the IGMP messages that virtual machines send to join or leave multicast groups. The vSwitch (vNetwork Standard and Distributed) have inherent knowledge of the virtual machine's virtual NIC (vNIC) configuration tracks its multicast communication in the forwarding table.

Multicast Filtering Modes - VMware

    https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc/GUID-97724211-5167-428F-A217-871963A7DFF7.html
    In addition to the default basic mode for filtering multicast traffic, vSphere Distributed Switch 6.0.0 and later releases support multicast snooping that forwards multicast traffic in a more precise way based on the Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) messages from virtual machines.

Multicast and VMware VMware Communities

    https://communities.vmware.com/thread/209436
    Jun 10, 2009 · Multicast should work fine on hosted (VMware Server) as well as ESX. The only thing we do out of the ordinary for ESX in inject an IGMP query following a …

Enable Multicast Snooping on a vSphere Distributed Switch

    https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc/GUID-50AF72D4-F766-4D68-8330-BA15250E4E99.html
    Use multicast snooping on a vSphere Distributed Switch to forward traffic in a precise manner according to Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) or Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) membership information that virtual machines send to subscribe for multicast traffic.

Multicast Filtering - VMware

    https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.0/com.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc/GUID-9C4D2D07-74EC-46D3-99A5-D7C01B5AE811.html
    In vSphere 6.0 and later, vSphere Distributed Switch supports basic and snooping models for filtering of multicast packets that are related to individual multicast groups. Choose a model according to the number of multicast groups to which the virtual machines on the switch subscribe.

Goodbye Multicast - Virtual Blocks - VMware Blogs

    https://blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/2017/04/11/goodbye-multicast/
    Apr 11, 2017 · vSAN I’ll start off with a simple statement that will likely make a lot of customers happy. VMware vSAN in 6.6 will no longer use Multicast. All vSAN traffic will instead use Unicast. For a history of why Multicast was used, as well as what changed to prompt the shift read the history of vSAN multicast …



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