Virtual Nic in Novell only run at 100 Mbps...

[jonathanp]

Hi we have a VM with Novell 6 and and the nic is just running a 100 Mbps...

Is it normal or is there a way to have it to run at 1Gbps?

Regards

Jon

p.s. esx 3.0.1

[oreeh]

If you are using the VMXNET or VLANCE this is normal.

The NIC displays 100MBit regardless of the physical speed - no need to worry.

If you want 1GBit in the guest (though the actual speed won't differ much) change the guest VM to use the e1000.

[jonathanp]

Sorry, but where I can change that?

In the OS itself, int the vmx... ?

Thanks

Jon

[oreeh]

in the vmx file (ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000")

[Lfrisino]

Here's the question I posted to VMware:

"Does VMware support a 1GB NIC Driver for Netware 6.5 yet? As far as I

know, you only have a 100 meg driver for NW 6.5..."

Here's their response"

"Unfortunately, according to documentation on our website, there's no future plans to develop VMxnet driver for Netware OS."

[chucks0 · Accepted solution]

The link speed reported by Netware is irrelevant. VMware will always use the full bandwidth of the NIC. It is true that there is not a vmxnet driver for Netware. The best driver to use is CNEAMD.LAN. During backups, we push our Netware VMs to around 400 mb/sec even though the CNEAMD driver reports 10mb/sec in VMware.

[NYSDHCR]

I had contacted VMware in the past and they told me they had no plans to develop a GB NIC for Netware 6.5...

[scerazy]

chucks0 is right, reported speed is totally irrelevant & cneamd is the best drievr to use

Seb