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Below is an example of enabling jumbo frames. The Delphix Engine is assumed to be using  link aggregation (aggr0)  over a e1000g interface (e1000g0). The target host is assumed to be running Linux and using eth0. For the ESX host, we provide two scenarios (one each for ESX 4.x and 5.0 respectively) to enable jumbo frames on the virtual switch (assumed to be vswitch0) to which the Delphix VM is connected:

1. Enable jumbo frames on the Delphix Engine. (Note this needs to be done with the help of Delphix Support)
   
   Run the following commands on the Delphix server:
   
   # dladm set-linkprop -p mtu=9000  aggr0
   # dladm set-linkprop -p mtu=9000  e1000g0
    
2. Enable jumbo frames on the target host.
   
   Run the following command on the target host.
   
   # ifconfig eth0 mtu 9000 up
    
3. Enable jumbo frames on the virtual switch  on  ESX host.
   
   For ESX 4.x,  we have to do this from the command line on the ESX host by running the below command
   
   # esxcfg-vswitch -m 9000 vSwitch0 
   
   For ESX 5.0, this can be done via the GUI:
1. Click on the Configuration tab for the ESX host.
2. Select Networking from the options under Hardware.
3. Click on Properties for vSwitch0.
4. Click on Edit and increase the MTU to 9000 and click OK.