C7000 - Network performance

[Vincent Commarieu]

Hi

We have a C7000 enclosure with dual 1/10Gb Virtual Connect, and 3 blades BL685, running Vmware Esx4

We seems to have networking performance issues, but cannot pin point exactly where using vmware tools, or looking at the HP VC and ILO web pages.

What are the best tools to look at what is going on for networking at the blade enclosure level?

We have some applications running from server to server on the same blade, that are much slower than if ran on physicall servers, and we suspect some sort of network bootleneck, but we would like to prove it, in order to make the appropriate decision?

Thanks