Implementing SR-IOV on HP ProLiant Servers with VMware vSphere 5.1

Technical white paper | Implementing SR-IOV on HP ProLiant Servers with VMware vSphere
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• When a network adapter port is selected for SR-IOV use by enabling VFs on the PF, then that port instance becomes
hidden. In this hidden state, the virtual machine NIC (vmnic) typically associated with each network adapter port cannot
use vSwitches.
• There is no method to limit the bandwidth allocation to individual VFs. Each VF has access to the entire potential
bandwidth of the physical link.
• VMs with a VF assigned do not support the following capabilities:
– vMotion
– Storage vMotion
– High availability
– Fault tolerance
– DRS
– DPM
– Suspend and resume
– Snapshots
– MAC-based VLAN on the VFs
– Hot adding and removing of virtual devices, memory, and vCPU
– vShield
– Netflow
– Virtual Wire