Elevate VMware Virtualization The Power of AES-NI Passthrough Unleashed

VMware - Enable SR-IOV on VMware. Disable power savings on CPU ... Enable CPU turbo; Enable AES-NI, SSE3, SSE4, and RDTSC instruction sets ... But, there are certain corner cases, like encryption, that are crippled when instructions sets like AES-NI ... VMware vSphere Foundation ... VM encryption does not impose any specific hardware requirements and using a processor that supports the AES-NI instruction set speeds up the encryption and ... ... VMware vSphere vMotion™ (which in turn affects DRS, DPM, and other ... One situation in which disabling AES-NI passthrough might be ... Note 2: It's also good to know if your processor supports a set of AES-NI instructions, then encryption and decryption operations will be ... ... passthrough; Intel AES-NI support; 4 CPU cores running at 2.4GHz. KVM SR-IOV ... Launching VMware ESXi 6.0 and 6.5; Enabling SR-IOV or PCI Passthrough on ESXi ... ... AES-NI, Smart Cache, Hyper-threading, except the C1 stepping models ... I've verified that VT-D works (I can pass through devices to ... The VMs encryption works based on AES-NI algorithm, and the key ... Next, all I/O operations are carried out through encryption module ... The only options that could be related to OpenVPN performance is aesni.ko on/off, cryptodev on/off and ip.fastforwarding=0/1. I've tried combinations of all 3, ... ... passthrough, granting a VM direct access to the NIC hardware. In ... The 'aes' feature being referred to is Intel's AES-NI acceleration for cryptography.