(Solved) Beta2 in VmWare performance problems

Supermule

I need to see it IRL.

Are you running on bare metal or on some sort of OS?

dklev

VmWare Server 1.0.8 runs on M$ Windows 2003 Standard 64bit.

Hugo

Supermule

Upgrade the Server to 2.0.

dklev

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

Supermule

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

dklev

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

Supermule

Can you make a drawing of your network setup?

toomeek

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

dklev

@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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Supermule

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??

dklev

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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Supermule

Screenshots of the Vswitch config pls.

dklev

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