Hello,
I'm reaching out to the community in hopes of someone who might be able to help me solve a current road block.
I am creating an ESXi home server and I would like to be able to run Freenas with passthrough as one of the VM on the ESXi server. My current setup is Supermicro X10SL7-F running ESXI 5.5 off a USB thumb drive and FREENAS 9.2.1.7 loaded into a dedicated SSD datastore. I have 6 WD RED 3TB drives in RAIDZ2 with passthrough of the PCI controller to FreeNAS.
Most of my home computers are Apple Macs, so I wanted to be setup an ESXi where I can perform Time Machine Back-Up, as well as manual back-up of files.
I've installed VMXNET3 drivers onto my FreeNAS setup which work fine. However, my transfer over network is slow regardless of which protocol/sharing I use. I'm only getting speeds in the realm of 5-6MB/sec, whereas if I access FREENAS from a Windows VM on the same ESXi, I can hit speeds of 100MB/s.
I've tried the various ESXI network drivers, actual different network ports (I have a total of 4 gigabit ports on the ESXI server) to no avail. I don't know where else to troubleshoot to find this error.
Any help is appreciated please!
I'm reaching out to the community in hopes of someone who might be able to help me solve a current road block.
I am creating an ESXi home server and I would like to be able to run Freenas with passthrough as one of the VM on the ESXi server. My current setup is Supermicro X10SL7-F running ESXI 5.5 off a USB thumb drive and FREENAS 9.2.1.7 loaded into a dedicated SSD datastore. I have 6 WD RED 3TB drives in RAIDZ2 with passthrough of the PCI controller to FreeNAS.
Most of my home computers are Apple Macs, so I wanted to be setup an ESXi where I can perform Time Machine Back-Up, as well as manual back-up of files.
I've installed VMXNET3 drivers onto my FreeNAS setup which work fine. However, my transfer over network is slow regardless of which protocol/sharing I use. I'm only getting speeds in the realm of 5-6MB/sec, whereas if I access FREENAS from a Windows VM on the same ESXi, I can hit speeds of 100MB/s.
I've tried the various ESXI network drivers, actual different network ports (I have a total of 4 gigabit ports on the ESXI server) to no avail. I don't know where else to troubleshoot to find this error.
Any help is appreciated please!