Hi all
My configuration: 2 x HPDL 380 G5, vSphere Standard, vCenter Foundation, MSA1000
Both servers are equipped with 1 HP NC373i Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter (embedded - 2 ports) and 1 HP NC360T (added - 2 ports). The first is identify by ESX as Intel Corporation 82571EB Gigabit
Ethernet Controller and the second as Broadcom Corporation Broadcom
NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T. The NIC are connected to the same Gb switch.
When I copy a test file (1GB) from a physical server to a VM (Windos 2003) that is "binded" to the Intel NIC, performance are 40-42 MB/s. The same test from the same server to other VM (Windows 2003, XP, Linux) performs 20-22 MB/s.
Maybe a IRQ or a driver problem ?
cat /proc/vmware/interrupts (Broadcom are vmnic0 and vmnic1)
Vector | PCPU 0 | PCPU 1 | PCPU 2 | PCPU 3 | PCPU 4 | PCPU 5 | PCPU 6 | PCPU 7 | |
0x21: | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | VMK ACPI Interrupt |
0x22: | 1425133 | 1310196 | 980490 | 919533 | 742309 | 764753 | 976164 | 955231 | VMK cciss0 |
0x29: | 120 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | COS irq 1 (ISA edge) |
0x31: | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | <COS irq 3 (ISA edge)> |
0x39: | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | <COS irq 4 (ISA edge)> |
0x41: | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | <COS irq 6 (ISA edge)> |
0x49: | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | COS irq 8 (ISA edge) |
0x51: | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | <COS irq 11 (ISA edge)> |
0x59: | 157 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | COS irq 12 (ISA edge) |
0x61: | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | <COS irq 13 (ISA edge)> |
0x69: | 1275 | 5883 | 0 | 1020 | 1 | 0 | 4080 | 0 | <COS irq 14 (ISA edge)>, VMK libata |
0x71: | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | <COS irq 15 (ISA edge)>, VMK libata |
0x79: | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | <COS irq 16 (PCI level)>, VMK uhci_hcd:usb2, VMK ehci_hcd:usb1 |
0x81: | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | <COS irq 17 (PCI level)>, VMK uhci_hcd:usb3 |
0x89: | 6621097 | 3820460 | 21339423 | 22894321 | 15919549 | 14392462 | 14777265 | 15413282 | <COS irq 18 (PCI level)>, VMK qla2xxx, VMK uhci_hcd:usb4 |
0x91: | 257081 | 123218 | 249195 | 227139 | 159631 | 332055 | 172800 | 166005 | <COS irq 19 (PCI level)>, VMK qla2xxx, VMK uhci_hcd:usb5 |
0x99: | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | <COS irq 22 (PCI level)> |
0xa1: | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | <COS irq 20 (PCI level)> |
0xa9: | 76 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | <COS irq 21 (PCI level)>, VMK uhci_hcd:usb6 |
0xb1: | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 434940540 | 0 | 0 | 0 | VMK vmnic0 |
0xb9: | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3791755 | 0 | 0 | 0 | VMK vmnic1 |
0xc1: | 1683702 | 4355657 | 916470 | 1407856 | 520711 | 3391248 | 1266330 | 3719433 | VMK vmnic2 |
0xc9: | 154275 | 214610 | 102000 | 55080 | 58398 | 52275 | 68595 | 58650 | VMK vmnic3 |
0xdf: | 610585043 | 679585878 | 689560293 | 691393738 | 692551003 | 696278389 | 691877800 | 694125796 | VMK timer |
0xe1: | 70913 | 310979 | 1297883 | 991128 | 778091 | 837844 | 817038 | 768270 | VMK monitor |
0xe9: | 142000793 | 110612476 | 259330606 | 281321494 | 136070039 | 188644905 | 193187899 | 197254694 | VMK resched |
0xf1: | 42010 | 278812 | 323655 | 291608 | 414655 | 398176 | 346804 | 311322 | VMK tlb |
0xf9: | 30107670 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | VMK noop |
0xfc: | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | VMK thermal |
0xfd: | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | VMK lint1 |
0xfe: | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | VMK error |
0xff: | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | VMK spurious |
Many thanks and regards
Max
