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07-09-2012 10:25 AM
07-09-2012 10:25 AM
Re: Performance issues when using VSA on ESX with VMXNET3 driver
Hi Braak,
Any update on your support case?
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07-12-2012 12:12 AM
07-12-2012 12:12 AM
Re: Performance issues when using VSA on ESX with VMXNET3 driver
We stopped using the VSA's. We cant work with the product if it isn't stable and lacks of proper support :(
Last advice of vmware was setting the --iops parameter to 1.
Hope you have more luck
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11-03-2012 08:00 AM
11-03-2012 08:00 AM
Re: Performance issues when using VSA on ESX with VMXNET3 driver
Let's do some new testing with ESXi 5.1 and Lefthand OS 10 as soon it's GA. (4th of December)
I hope the problems are fixed by now..
New version 10 VSA's have 2 vCPU's and should work a lot better.
Also see http://marcelbraak.wordpress.com/2012/11/03/saniq-10-lefthand-os-soon-to-be-released/
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11-03-2012 04:58 PM
11-03-2012 04:58 PM
Re: Performance issues when using VSA on ESX with VMXNET3 driver
I hope to see the write performance increase in 10.0 as I did notice a dip in throughput after upgrading to 9.5.
I think the one thing HP needs to do is add a CMC plugin for the vSphere client. If I could manage my SANiQ cluster from the vsphere client that would be killer.
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11-05-2012 05:39 AM
11-05-2012 05:39 AM
Re: Performance issues when using VSA on ESX with VMXNET3 driver
Hi all,
I hope that bonding between more virtual NICs will be supported in VSA 10.0 at last.
With only one NIC is VSA very "slow"...
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11-05-2012 07:36 AM
11-05-2012 07:36 AM
Re: Performance issues when using VSA on ESX with VMXNET3 driver
for VSA's, why can't you just do the bonding before presenting to the VM? Thats what I'm doing in hyper-v and it works fine.
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11-06-2012 07:37 AM
11-06-2012 07:37 AM
Re: Performance issues when using VSA on ESX with VMXNET3 driver
Hi oikjn,
of course, I have bonding before presenting to the VM (VSA) but it is failover type (active-pasive) i. e. I can see traffic flow on one NIC only in realtime.
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11-06-2012 12:24 PM
11-06-2012 12:24 PM
Re: Performance issues when using VSA on ESX with VMXNET3 driver
I don't really follow vmware much... can it not do something like LCAP bonding at the host? I would have thought it could do that. If not, I guess the guest is the only option, but LCAP or the equivalent requires the switches to accept that active-active link so if you don't have that you can't really solve your problem through the VSA anyway.
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11-06-2012 01:26 PM
11-06-2012 01:26 PM
Re: Performance issues when using VSA on ESX with VMXNET3 driver
VMware can nic bond, but LACP doesn't really give you twice the bandwidth unless you are talking to multiple destinations. It isn't the recommended way of doing things with VMware, as their built in load balancing and redundancies work better.
Also, you won't have more than 1 gbps unless you are using VMXNET3, which is what this whole thread is about. All of the other nics are 1 gbps, so actually bonding channels won't get you 2 gbps of throughput out of a 1 gpbs virtual nic.
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11-07-2012 02:59 PM
11-07-2012 02:59 PM
Re: Performance issues when using VSA on ESX with VMXNET3 driver
understood. my point was purely, why bond in the VM? what method of bonding inside the VM would give you full bonding bandwidth?