I currently have one SBS 2003 VM on a ESXi 4 host connected to a HP ProCurve 1800-24G switch. My ESXi (Dell R610 server) host has 6 gigabit ports. I want to set this up as one 6Gbit trunk as we use it for transferring and capturing HD video. My SBS guest VM is set up with with the vmxnet 3 driver which shows as a 10Gbit connection. I have all the adaptors active on the host and have set it up for Load Balancing - Route based on ip hash and the switch is setup with these ports as a trunk. All apears to work ok however I am only getting around 400Mbps when transferring files. This is actually worse than when I had one Gb port used and SBS not setup as a VM!
All ports are detected as 1000 base-t when set to auto but just for good measure I've forced it to 1000. I can't see where the problem lies. There is a frimware update for the 1800-24g which adds some options when setting up trunks as follows.
'Trunks — There are now six configuration options on the Trunks ->Membership configura- tion screen: SMAC XOR DMAC XOR IP-Info, SMAC, DMAC, SMAC XOR DMAC, Pseudo- Randomized, and IP-Info.'
Which is the best option to set up the trunk on the switch? Before I update the firmware Iwant to make sure I have the correct options set. I've done a lot of reading through the forums and as far as I can see everything is correct. Any help appreciated!
Ive attached some snaps of my configuration. Ive disabled two of the adapters in these snaps as they were on a different card. The configuation is the same and I still get 400Mbps.
The device I'm writing too is connected to the VM with VM-Direct Path and a Fibre HBA. I get 280MB/sec average writing to the RAID from WITHIN the VM so thats not the bottleneck.
