hi ,
I have a quad core x.86 board which i have checked latency performance.
The setup is :
Test equipment GBe port 1 <> 1gbe nic port 1 board --- 1gbe nic port 2 board <> Test equipment GBe port 2
At first i installed centos 6.5 directly on the board .
configured the board to be linux router and measured latency over time.
Got 100 microsec with steady results in short frames 82Bytes/frame
Then , i have installed ESXi 5.5 on the board , and on top of it i have created vm centos 6.5 with same image.
repeated the tests and got non stable results with latency peaks between 5 milisec to 10 milisec.
when i repeat the test with long frames 1500Bytes the problem is almost gone.
How can i tune the vmware for low latency on short frames ?
BR,
Yoram
Which vNIC do you use? Generally, vmxnet3 delivers better performance than e1000/e1000e, but VM has to use proper driver for it (in case of CentOS it means current kernel, as vmxnet3-driver is part of kernel-tree)...
Hi ,
Its VMXNET3 indeed
BR,
Yoram