I have several ESXi and Xen hypervisors running on CentOS 5.8 x64 connected to an OI + napp-it SAN via Dual Port Intel Pro 1000 PT nics using round-robon MPIO.
From guest VMs on the ESXi boxes I can get 243MB/s read and 247MB/s write to the SAN but from guest VMs on the CentOS boxes I can...
Bingo, had to change this in my e1000g.cfg file. It was set at 0,0,0,0.....
MaxFrameSize=3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3;
# 0 is for normal ethernet frames.
# 1 is for upto 4k size frames.
# 2 is for upto 8k size frames.
# 3 is for upto 16k size frames...
Thanks, i'll give that a go.
Do you know if there are any ssh commands I can issue to help tweak things?
I've enabled jumbo frames accross the board, tried increasing the max tcp windows size etc. but none of this has made even a slight difference.
Hi,
First time to post on the forum so not sure if this is even where I should be posting this.
I have moved from Nexenta 3.1.3.5 to Openindiana + napp-it and have seen a significant drop in iScsi performance on the very same hardware / config as previous.
With Nexenta and my ESXi 5.1...