Hi,
I'm using ESXi 5.1. I configured vSwitch with maximum average and maximum peak bandwidth of 10000Kbit/s. There are 4 vms connected to the vSwitch and sharing a file using BitTorrent protocol. The situation is that 3 vms share a file and 1 vm is downloading from all of them. The downloader's network interface shows around 30000Kbit/s going in, so this is 3 times the defined limit. It seems that only the traffic sent from the interface to the vSwitch is limited. When trying to transmit the file point-to-point the limitation works well. Please explain if I'm making some mistake in my thinking or the limits don't work as they should.