Applies to ONTAP Select 9.5 onwards E1000 VMXNET3 VMXNET3 vmnics provide improved performance over E1000 vmnics Starting ONTAP Select 9.5 VMXNET3 vmnics is the default for any new deployment For versi...Applies to ONTAP Select 9.5 onwards E1000 VMXNET3 VMXNET3 vmnics provide improved performance over E1000 vmnics Starting ONTAP Select 9.5 VMXNET3 vmnics is the default for any new deployment For versions prior to ONTAP Select 9.5, converting to VMXNET3 vmnics are supported with the disruptive manual procedure however in some rare cases ports would fail to come up or show operationally down hence the recommendation is to first upgrade to ONTAP Select 9.5 or above.
Applies to VMware ESXi 6.7 NetApp Element sofware Virtual machine (VM) with Windows 2019 VMXNET3 paravirtualized NIC Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers Issue Windows VM on UCS blade cannot format datast...Applies to VMware ESXi 6.7 NetApp Element sofware Virtual machine (VM) with Windows 2019 VMXNET3 paravirtualized NIC Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers Issue Windows VM on UCS blade cannot format datastore with VMXNET3 on Windows 2019 Working: E1000 on Windows 2019 VMXNET3 on Windows 2016
