Illumian and VMXNET3 Driver - Not working yet?

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Patrick

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_gea I saw cactus asked this on the installing Illumian in ESXi post today.

Tried swapping in the VMXNET3 driver and still was getting the svc:/network/physical error.

Any thoughts? From what I understood this release was to add support for VMXNET3 out of the box.
 

gea

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_gea I saw cactus asked this on the installing Illumian in ESXi post today.

Tried swapping in the VMXNET3 driver and still was getting the svc:/network/physical error.

Any thoughts? From what I understood this release was to add support for VMXNET3 out of the box.
VMXNET3 is working out of the box with the included ESXi driver in OpenIndiana and Solaris Express 11
I have not tried but was told it is working with NexentaStor Enterprise Edition

It is not working with Solaris 11, NexentaStor CE or Illumian 1.0.
For Illumian i would expect it, when NexentaStor4 is ready.

But even with the ESXi e1000g driver, you can reach several Gbit/s transfer rate - not as fast as VMXNet3
and with higher CPU load- but faster than over a physical 1 Gbit network and you can add some additional
speed up with VMCI http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/mi...nguage=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1010806
 
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