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  • 1.  ESXi setting to increase WOL pNIC speed

    Posted Apr 01, 2024 12:42 PM

    Hi,

    Let me start by saying WOL is working fine in my ESXi.

    However the pNIC speed is slowed to 10Mbps during power down.

    Is there a hidden setting that can increase this behavior to at least 100Mbps ?

    The newer switches that I'm getting no longer support 10Mbps.

    Regards.



  • 2.  RE: ESXi setting to increase WOL pNIC speed

    Posted Apr 03, 2024 02:32 PM

    Some it's incredibly difficult to find this info in ESXi, compared with relatively easy process on a real Windows machine.

    In Windows,

    Intel cards has a "Reduce speed on power down" disable this.

    Broadcom cards has a "WOL speed" set this to 100Mbps.