JohnO Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 I'm an unRAID newbie. I've just set up an array on ESXi 5.0u3 using a passthrough SATA controller. I'm wondering about network performance, especially to other VMs on the same ESXi server. I built the VM with the E1000 driver. Supposedly the VMXNET3 driver has better performance with less of an impart to resources. Has anyone tested? Any noted performance difference? Any noted stability difference? Thanks, John Quote Link to comment
NAS Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 If you can use VMXNET3 you should always use VMXNET3. Its driver isn't always available though. Quote Link to comment
JohnO Posted February 15, 2014 Author Share Posted February 15, 2014 OK, I've converted all my VMs to use the VMXNET3 network interface. Simple tests seem to show it's working fine! VM OS's: CentOS 6.5, Ubuntu 13.10, Windows 7 and unRAID 5.0.5. Thanks for the input. John Quote Link to comment
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