ESXi 4.1 and the 9000 Byte MTU (on vmk0)

Recently I did a “few” upgrades to the home lab. Besides an upgrade to enhance shared storage for vSphere (my old NAS was at 502 days uptime), I took the opportunity to enable jumbo packets on my Dell PowerConnect 5324 and the new fire-and-forget Thecus N7700PRO NAS. As the basis for new lab infrastructure to [...]