test setup are two proliant microserver each one with HP Ethernet 1Gb 2-port 332i Adapter running hp's vmware 6u2 latest patch and mtu 9000 on the vswitches.
direct connect, not using a switch. regular rj45 cable connected - it sure should auto mdi-x
os was w2k12r2 mtu on nic jumboed, using vmnetx3

hi - be aware only one of those slots on the board is PCIe the other one is sata - way lower speeds i was looking for some reviews before i decided to buy me a new system. one i found: http://benchmarkreviews.com/32720/silverstone-ecm20-m2-adapter-review/ and - those pcie m2 strips geht cery hot - i...

sorry if s may have a quick question slighty offtopic but somwhat related - about NTttcp tests i noticed my SEND / RECEIVE node having same speed (d'uh) but the RECEIVE node has larger avg MTUs (jumbo enabeld) any idea whats causing this ? (if tested the other direction, REC>SND frames again) ((does...

i did tinker a bit more, jumboframe - max ram cache this is my setup now - if anyone has any ideas - always welcome: hardware as in my original post, only 2 nics - 1x lan & 1x (iscsi) crosslink patched VMWARE - storage, using 10GB from SSD as caching VMWARE - network jumbo enabled on vswitch1 ie...

i want to test performance/functionality running SW-VSA in 2-node with vmware hyperconverged or as storage this is my lab: two HP Gen8 Microserver modded with *) 16GB RAM *) Intel Xeon E3-1270v2 3.5GHz QuadCore CPU *) HPE SmartArray P222/512-FBWC SAS/SATA RAID Controller, 512MB Flash Backed Write Ca...