On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 07:10:32AM +0000, Angelo Höngens wrote: > I'm wondering what the difference would be between the standard slow e1000 > virtual network card and the fast paravirtualized vmxnet3 virtual network > card. In theory, the latter one should be much, much faster..
We've tested that at Exceliance. Yes it's a lot faster. But still a lot slower than the native machine. To give you an idea, you can get about 6000 connections per second under ESX on a machine that natively supports between 25000 and 40000 depending on the NICs. Regards, Willy
