(Solved) Beta2 in VmWare performance problems
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Uninstall the PFSense VmWare tools package and use E1000 NIC's. Bare in mind that your VMVersion should be 7.
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Hi Supermule,
thank you for your idea. I did a new setup with e1000 NIC, but the problem stays the same (same slow NAT/Network performance with CPU load). The only difference is, that the interfaces are not called "le0" "le1" anymore, but "em0" "em1" instead.
I am using VmWare server 1.0.8, that runs super stable. My windows VMs don't have this problem at all.
Any other / additional ideas? The bad performance kills my nerves ;-)
Hugo
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Have you checked to se if your nic's are on par with the physical setup on the switch an machine?
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I am not sure if I understand right… My NIC configuration is as following:
em0 LAN (bridged e1000 connected to LAN interface on the host)
em1 WAN (bridged e1000 connected to WAN interface on the host)My previous software router (Windows2003 Server with Routing&RAS) provided full Gigabit speed, but my pfSense creates CPU load and CPU waits (see my first post)
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I need to see it IRL.
Are you running on bare metal or on some sort of OS?
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VmWare Server 1.0.8 runs on M$ Windows 2003 Standard 64bit.
Hugo
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Upgrade the Server to 2.0.
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There are 25 VMs running there, all are stable and work perfectly. Then I don't like the frontend at all.
May be there is another solution. May be we should come back how to use the vmxnet properly in pfSense/FreeBSD?
Hugo -
Some reading…
http://communities.vmware.com/message/295830
http://books.google.dk/books?id=hs0y2B--L4UC&pg=PA805&lpg=PA805&dq=vmxnet+speed+issue&source=bl&ots=vxMZ4X0eBE&sig=veMoCNelx9PuxcC_EZlOp1I4gDo&hl=da&ei=FnnpTOrqApGeOon_mbgK&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CE4Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q&f=false
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Thanks a lot, but both links don't bring me new ideas. Please keep in mind, that with other VMs the performance is perfect, so I don't have problems with my host.
How can I setup vmxnet in pfSense / FreeBSD? To remember:
Whenever I switch my vmx to ethernet0.virtualDev = "vmxnet":
- Valid interfaces are: No interfaces found! So there is no NIC for pfSense
- ps awx |grep vmware returns no process
- ps awx without grep returns a line like [vmdaemon]
Thanks in advance.
Hugo -
Can you make a drawing of your network setup?
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Dear dklev Leave Your VMWare alone! and use another hypervisor and qemu-kvm, it work's perfectly.
I have similar situation like You, just using 2 independent environments.EDIT: just found program for network diagrams ;)
http://www.networknotepad.com/shots.html -
@Supermule: Here is your drawing: One LAN computer downloads from WAN ftp Server (inside DMZ). Network performance is poor when up/downloading (max 150kB/s)
@TooMeeK: Thank you for your opinion. I'd like to stay with Vmware
@All: I only need my vmxnet working and/or the correct Vmware settings ;-)
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WAN Ftp??? Are you using a windows box as your frontend OS with a VMServer on top? And all the traffic goes through the win box and on to the VMServer with 25 VM's on it??
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Okay, here is an extended view to the network: My problem is only pfSense. Traffic from pfSense LAN interface to WAN interface is slow (see red arrows).
Important: It doesn't matter if traffic comes from/to another VM in LAN, or another VM in DMZ, or another PC in LAN, or another PC in DMZ. If pfSense is in between to NAT the traffic: SLOW.
Before I had a Windows 2003 VM with NAT and same config: Gigabit speed, very low CPU load.
So: pfSense is SLOW while NATing. See CPU load in my first post.
If there is no solution, I have to place the Windows 2003 VM back :-((
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Screenshots of the Vswitch config pls.
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Hi Supermule,
Problem is solved already!! It was really the host, that was not working correctly. I switched off pfSense, startet my old Windows 2003 Server: Same lag and same effects!!! After complete restart speed is now up to 30.000kB/s, without need to install Vmware Tools, vmxnet and whatever.
Thank you very much für your patience.
Hugo