I determined that the on-board nic in my vCenter machine (where Starwind is hosted) was jabbering and have disabled it. So now I have the dual port server adapter teamed and connected to the same switch as the ESX hosts. Without this extra traffic it seems a bit faster than before, but still not acc...

what I had in mind was exactly what you described... a dual port server adapter and a pair of crossover cables wired to each esx host. will post back in a few weeks once I can get the adapters and run the test.

I had some more time to mess with this today. On my two ESX 4.0 servers I added a new vswitch and made its MTU 9000. I then added a new vmkernel adapter and assigned that to one of the physical nics, modified its MTU to 9000. So now I have jumbo turned on in ESX and a full gig ethernet adapter dedic...

Network utilization according to task manager is around 7 or 8 % (gigabit). This is my home lab, so I don't even know whether jumbo frame is an option for me. The ESX hosts didn't seem to have that in the BIOS menu last time I looked. On the Windows box I did turn it on in the driver. But my el chea...

I just installed this today... Using free version with VMware ESX 4.0. I have two lun's that show up fine in VMware. Just copying files over, deploying a template to a vm, etc. I'm getting below 1m/sec. Can't quite figure out why. CPU & network utilization are in single digits. I have it on my V...