Pfsense on Hyper-v is really slow compared to previous pfSense solution

xdtarrexd

Hello there! I have been a pf user for a couple of months now and I really like it, but during a server migration, I decided to move my standalone pfServer to VM (Hyper-V) But I seem to have some issues with speed doing this

Here is a quick peek at my configuration (Now vs working as intended)
http://i.imgur.com/D05UWIv.png

OS: Windows server 2012 r2
Hardware specs: http://www8.hp.com/us/en/products/proliant-servers/product-detail.html?oid=5379860#!tab=specs
Nics : Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit

How I set up the VM for pfsense

1. @Hyper-V "Virtual Switch Manager" I added both the WAN and LAN as "External network"s with default options
2. Installed pfSense with ALL default settings

The Nics were detected as "hn0\hn1" and hn0 recived the WAN adress, I even pinged Google.com to see if the connection was successful, and it was.

But I get really slow speeds on my 100UD fibre connection.

I tied to load my previous pfSense box's configuration without any success, the problem still persisted.

When I switch back to my old configuration (Switching back cables), I get good speeds again.

I don't really know what to do now, so im facing here to find some guidence.

EDIT:

Both pfSense setups are at the same version (2.3.2)

Regards

xt

PanicAcid

I would double check that Virtual Machine Queueing or whatever it's called is disabled on your broadcom NICs on the host.

We've had sooo many network performance issues on Hyper-V and it's usually down to this feature on the network cards.

http://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/04/SLN132131

Soyokaze

offloading IN the virtual machine (esp. RX/TXSUM), you probably should have it disabled all
offloading ON the host - sometimes you need to disable it too (but check VM first)