Hey all
In preparation for setting up a ESXi box to house a file server (WHS or 2012) and a WMC/Ceton VM, I have been playing with an installation and learning as I go. I have run in to a couple roadblocks that I seem to be unable to get past with my limited experience and searching. First the system it is running on is a SM X8SIA-F with a L3426 and 16GB RAM with a single HD for testing.
First I have been unable to get any passthrough working at all. I tried both NICS (both are 82574 onboard) to no avail. All shows fine in vSphere with a green dot, but when I then create a VM, assign that NIC to it and then load an OS it never sees it. Nothing in the device manager nor will it allow me to load a driver (install says no such adapter found). I was hoping to assign one NIC to the WMC VM to allow all the traffic that the tuner will require but no go. I plan to get another 4 ports minimum when the system all comes together but figure it might be nice to get this working first
Second, I am having some serious network issues. Originally I had both NICs teamed in the default vSwitch serving both the VMKernel and the VMs. To test this I tried to transfer a large video file from my current server to the WMC VM. When doing a 5GB file it runs at 70-75MBs for about 20% of the file then hits the wall and gets down to 20-25MBs for the rest of the file. From the server to a regular PC on the network it stays in the 70MBs range at all times. I tried a couple changes, like separating the 2 NICs in to 2 vSwitches with one handling the VMs and the other the VMKernel, and I changed drivers on the WMC VM from e1000 to VMXNET, but no help.
Anyway, any assistance would be greatly appreciated!
Todd
In preparation for setting up a ESXi box to house a file server (WHS or 2012) and a WMC/Ceton VM, I have been playing with an installation and learning as I go. I have run in to a couple roadblocks that I seem to be unable to get past with my limited experience and searching. First the system it is running on is a SM X8SIA-F with a L3426 and 16GB RAM with a single HD for testing.
First I have been unable to get any passthrough working at all. I tried both NICS (both are 82574 onboard) to no avail. All shows fine in vSphere with a green dot, but when I then create a VM, assign that NIC to it and then load an OS it never sees it. Nothing in the device manager nor will it allow me to load a driver (install says no such adapter found). I was hoping to assign one NIC to the WMC VM to allow all the traffic that the tuner will require but no go. I plan to get another 4 ports minimum when the system all comes together but figure it might be nice to get this working first
Second, I am having some serious network issues. Originally I had both NICs teamed in the default vSwitch serving both the VMKernel and the VMs. To test this I tried to transfer a large video file from my current server to the WMC VM. When doing a 5GB file it runs at 70-75MBs for about 20% of the file then hits the wall and gets down to 20-25MBs for the rest of the file. From the server to a regular PC on the network it stays in the 70MBs range at all times. I tried a couple changes, like separating the 2 NICs in to 2 vSwitches with one handling the VMs and the other the VMKernel, and I changed drivers on the WMC VM from e1000 to VMXNET, but no help.
Anyway, any assistance would be greatly appreciated!
Todd