For completness, this is what we use to get higher performance out of CSR1000v on ESX:
1. Set Latency Sensitve to High ( http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/latency-sensitive-perf-vsphere55.pdf ) 2. ethernetX.coalescingScheme = "disable" (for all interfaces on the VM) 3. Pin down memory and CPU (we run a 4 vCPU setup with 4G of RAM) This are the essentials from the config: config.version = "8" virtualHW.version = "10” numvcpus = "4" memSize = "4096“ ethernet0.virtualDev = "vmxnet3" ethernet0.networkName = "VM Network" ethernet0.addressType = "vpx” ethernet0.present = "TRUE" ethernet1.virtualDev = "vmxnet3" ethernet1.networkName = "TG1" ethernet1.addressType = "vpx” ethernet1.present = "TRUE" ethernet2.virtualDev = "vmxnet3" ethernet2.networkName = "TG2" ethernet2.addressType = "vpx” ethernet2.present = "TRUE" guestOS = "other26xlinux-64” sched.cpu.htsharing = "internal" sched.cpu.min = "13996" sched.cpu.units = "mhz" sched.cpu.shares = "high" sched.mem.min = "4096" sched.mem.shares = "high” ched.cpu.latencySensitivity = "high" sched.mem.pin = "TRUE" ethernet1.coalescingScheme = "disabled" ethernet2.coalescingScheme = "disabled” (we use Gi1 for management (ethernet0 in ESX). kind regards Pshem On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 at 01:06 Mark Tinka <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 13/Aug/15 14:07, Nick Cutting wrote: > > > There were some discussions on here a few weeks/months back about some > best practices for running these devices. > > I think it was Pshem who shared some tweaks to ESXi to improve performance. > > > > > Mostly folks were using these for Route reflectors I think. > > That's what we do. Works like a charm, over 12x months now. > > Mark. > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
