vSphere 5.0 Poor network performance

[paradox]

Hi,

I am having trouble with network performance, only getting around 5% utilisation of 1GB.

HP NC107i NIC

Copies between a PC and NAS are full speed, copies from ESX-PC or ESX-NAS are very slow.  I have swapped ports, cables etc.

Also tried fixing 1000 Full, no difference.

Can anybody offer me advise on how to resolve this?

Dan

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/var/log # ethtool -i vmnic0

driver: tg3

version: 3.110h.v50.4

firmware-version: 5723-v3.35

bus-info: 0000:03:00.0

/sbin # esxcfg-nics -l

Name    PCI           Driver      Link Speed     Duplex MAC Address       MTU    Description

vmnic0  0000:03:00.00 tg3         Up   1000Mbps  Full   78:ac:c0:fb:ee:d1 1500   Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5723 Gigabit Ethernet

[Dave_Mishchenko]

When you're testing ESXi is it transfers from and to the host itself?  How is the performance of a VM running on the host?

[paradox]

To the hosts, i.e. datastore upload.  Pushing up the template 40gb, took 3 hours or so...

I am setting up a vCenter machine currently, it seems a little sluggish but thats probably as I only gave it one CPU.  I'll up that.

When i'm up and running i'll test transfers to the VM itself and post any differences.