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    Tuning vsphere 6.5 udp performance?

    Hello, I am in the processes of deploying a small 10Gbps network for my homelab. When verifying the 10G network with iperf3 I saw great TCP performance (+9Gbps with 9k mtu) but the UDP performance was all over the place. Further inspection showed me TCP rtr's on some runs the average speed did...
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    Fusion-io ioDrive 2 1.2TB Reference Page

    I haven't really tried the cards with proxmox or recent linux kernels so sorry can't help you there. I did upgrade one of my whitebox machines with FX-4100 CPU running ESXi 6.5 to 6.7 with the fusion IO card in it and so far the drivers seem to be working fine so we can hopefully run these...
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    Fusion-io ioDrive 2 1.2TB Reference Page

    I saw that but I was unsure if the iodrive would also support 512e but based on the documentation specifically saying to format it as 512b for esxi I guess not.
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    Fusion-io ioDrive 2 1.2TB Reference Page

    I've recently acquired a set of unused Fusion-io iodrive2 1.3 TB cards, was somewhat of a rushed deal so my research beforehand was lackluster. Thanks to the resources in this topic I was able to figure out some of the requirements early on however some things still surprised me that was mainly...
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    VM with passthrough "freezes" entire ESXi box when shutdown/rebooting guest

    xienze, thanks but no need now :) I know how to disable and enable devices through powershell but I was unable to disable the suspectUSB hub, I could only eject it. But I have sinds found that the issue is caused by a usb composite device which was present in device manager. The vm thinks this...
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    VM with passthrough "freezes" entire ESXi box when shutdown/rebooting guest

    I've also experienced the ESXi 6.0 u2 host freezing when shutting down or rebooting a Windows 8 VM with passthrough devices attached. After reading starkindler89's post I started disabling passthrough devices and found that passthrough of the USB 3 controller is the cause of the issues on my...