That's good to know. I can get a bit over that, but I won't try to tune it further as there doesn't seem to be much gain.

In a Linux VM I get ~28 Gb quite consistently. I found some articles where they are able to push close to 40 Gb but that seems to require some tuning. Above that there doesn't seem to be much information around. Anyone from Starwind care to comment on what kind of performance you have seen in intern...

I have servers with 40Gb Intel XL710 and 100GB Mellanox ConnectX-4 cards. I'm testing network performance with the included iperf in the Linux VSA and I'm only getting about ~30Gb when using VMXNET3 adapter. How should I tune this to get more speed? Or are Starwind processes better multithreaded tha...

I realized that the server chassis I'm considering only has one PCIe x16 slot which the 100 Gb card requires. Can I multipath in a way that in normal operation iSCSI and sync use the two 100 Gb interfaces and possibly overflow to a 40 Gb link, and then in a failure switch to the 40 Gb link completel...

Thanks, that's something to think about. If I'm getting at least three 100 Gb links I might as well go for four since a dual interface card doesn't cost that much more than a single one. But for the vm and vmotion networks I could possibly use dual 10 Gb links and in normal use separate them to diff...

Thank you, I will probably go towards 100 Gb Mellanox adapters that Supermicro has for their servers. What are your thoughts on link redundancy? I'm thinking of using redundant 10 Gb links for client network and vSphere management network. If I use redundant links for iSCSI and sync too, that's 8 li...

I'm speccing a 2-node vSphere hyperconverged setup with all flash storage. The SSD's will probably be 6x HGST SS530 in RAID-5. The drives should be able to reach at least 200 000 - 300 000 IOPS each with a mixed workload. What NIC speed should I be looking at for iSCSI/HB and synchronization interfa...