> Le 15 avr. 2016 à 12:33, Mike Montgomery <[email protected]> a écrit :
> 
> I'm not positive, but I was always under the impression to only use the VX
> net cards for Windows OS, I have always used the e1000 for Linux/pfsense.
> Run several firewalls in esxi 5.1 and never any issues.  Never needed tweak
> anything at all, except for when I tried to do carp.

I'll arrange some different tests later, but for now, VMXNET3 WAN, VMXNET3 LAN, 
the hosts have only 1 Gbps ethernet, I get ~850 Mbps in both directions through 
'speedtest.net' (from a LAN windows server box) to some servers I know well. 
That's about only 15% less than wire-speed, even though there is the expected 
overhead of the virtualization. Not bad.  Is it stable for long-term?  Only 
time will tell me, but it looks steady for now.

For fault-tolerance, I tend to think that CARP and dual virtualized pfSense 
(with affinity on different hosts), would be lighter than using vmware Fault 
Tolerance. That will be next week tests.

-- 
Meilleures salutations, Met vriendelijke groeten, Best Regards,
Olivier Mascia, integral.be/om



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