hurdle wrote:
In Traffic there are three settings Average, Peak, Burst, I get that. I also see that Average/Peak or bits and Burst size bytes.
So there are two things I am just not getting. 1. Why is burst size in bytes while the other to are in bits?
Part two of the question is the default for a 1 Gb link is 100000 for Average and Peak but Burst is 102400. I read help that said burst was max amount of data in the burst. It also said is what bandwidth multiplied by time, but that tells me nothing, and how the heck can your burst exceed your peak.
In my experience bit was network and byte was storage, but 1 plus 1 is not equally two.
Can someone please dumb this down for me.
The bandwidth is expressed in bits, as in a certain number of Kilobits allowed as average, the default is 100 Mbit/s if I remember correct.
If you want, you could allow the VM to temporarily "raise" this limit in a short burst. You should set this higher limit also expresed in bits, e.g. 200 Mbit/s, meaning that the VMs could for some period of time use a higher amount of bandwidht.
Finally, for how long could a VM use this higher bandwidth? This is not set in seconds, but in the number of Bytes that could be sent. In the case above, 102400 Bytes - which is 100 MByte. This could be changed to something else, perhaps lower, allowing the VM to use a higher bandwidht, but only send 5 MByte of data in a higher speed.