10 Gigabit Network Configurations on VMware vSphere
By default, the SoftNAS® VM (on VMware vSphere) ships with the default E1000 virtual NIC adapter and VMware defaults to MTU 1500.
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- Replace the E1000 virtual NIC adapter with a vmxnet3 on the SoftNAS® VM.
- Use MTU 9000 instead of MTU 1500 for vSwitch, vmKernel and physical switch configurations. Be sure to configure the network interface in SoftNAS for MTU 9000 also.
- Refer to the MTU 9000 section for more information.
A dedicated VLAN for storage traffic is recommended. For VMware, refer to the Performance Tuning for VMware vSphere section for details.
iSCSI Multi-pathing
To increase performance throughput and resiliency, use of iSCSI multipathing is recommended by VMware and other vendors.
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