We have set up a VM guest running w2k19 ( on a OVM 3.4.6 virtualization infrastructure with server having the physical NIC at 10Gbit )- The problem is that the virtual nic , assigned to the VM guest is limited at a very low speed of 100Mps;
How we can speed up the virtual nic up to 1000Mps or more ? which is the limit we can reach using 4 Virtual nic assigned the virtual Network attached to the Vlan interface connected to to a 10 Gbit physical port?
Here below the OVM server networking view
eth0 + eth2 bond0 at 10 Gbit (dedicated at management traffic and Vm)
Eth1 and eth3 tagged at 10Gbit (dedicated at storage iscsi and vm traffic)
VM has 5 netback device , one management and 4 for iscsi traffic (resulting and limited at 100Mps)
Network OVM server view
[root@ovmfpl02 ~]# ifconfig
bond0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 80:30:E0:31:76:40
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:317701596 errors:2056 dropped:105532 overruns:2056 frame:0
TX packets:3241800 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:103301416052 (96.2 GiB) TX bytes:2119956188 (1.9 GiB)
0a6a0000 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 80:30:E0:31:76:40
inet addr:10.106.1.22 Bcast:10.106.63.255 Mask:255.255.192.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:287443565 errors:0 dropped:19817346 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2010326 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:81111052821 (75.5 GiB) TX bytes:458468469 (437.2 MiB)
102c140ef4 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 80:30:E0:13:11:2C
inet addr:192.168.108.24 Bcast:192.168.108.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:229417 errors:0 dropped:77141 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:51728 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:57288102 (54.6 MiB) TX bytes:2859028 (2.7 MiB)
10f6e69d1e Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 80:30:E0:13:11:2C
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:298 errors:0 dropped:112 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:67996 (66.4 KiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
bond0.3000 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 80:30:E0:31:76:40
inet addr:192.168.103.22 Bcast:192.168.103.31 Mask:255.255.255.240
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:15 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:17 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1032 (1.0 KiB) TX bytes:1218 (1.1 KiB)
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 80:30:E0:31:76:40
UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:34 Memory:df800000-dfffffff
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 80:30:E0:13:11:2C
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:134062533 errors:0 dropped:42314 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:101572698 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:195082456109 (181.6 GiB) TX bytes:10390557965 (9.6 GiB)
Interrupt:37 Memory:de800000-deffffff
eth1.4000 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 80:30:E0:13:11:2C
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:52103891 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:101572616 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:188848627072 (175.8 GiB) TX bytes:9577957838 (8.9 GiB)
eth1.4001 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 80:30:E0:13:11:2C
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:231 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:82 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:51403 (50.1 KiB) TX bytes:18543 (18.1 KiB)
eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 80:30:E0:31:76:40
UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:317701596 errors:2056 dropped:2 overruns:2056 frame:0
TX packets:3241800 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:103301416052 (96.2 GiB) TX bytes:2119956188 (1.9 GiB)
Interrupt:50 Memory:e7800000-e7ffffff
eth3 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 80:30:E0:31:76:44
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:116218388 errors:0 dropped:42310 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:214582101 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:28271648755 (26.3 GiB) TX bytes:310954193309 (289.5 GiB)
Interrupt:53 Memory:e8800000-e8ffffff
eth3.4000 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 80:30:E0:31:76:44
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:106370437 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:214582019 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:25701707800 (23.9 GiB) TX bytes:309237517938 (287.9 GiB)
eth3.4001 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 80:30:E0:31:76:44
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:232 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:83 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:51463 (50.2 KiB) TX bytes:18617 (18.1 KiB)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:39127 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:39127 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:69109863 (65.9 MiB) TX bytes:69109863 (65.9 MiB)
vif11.0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:32
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
vif11.0-emu Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr CA:49:C3:2D:8C:05
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:22686 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2620997 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:500
RX bytes:4031988 (3.8 MiB) TX bytes:793843894 (757.0 MiB)
vif11.1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:32
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
vif11.1-emu Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 76:87:FC:4F:23:E7
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:51 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:150 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:500
RX bytes:10944 (10.6 KiB) TX bytes:32604 (31.8 KiB)
vif11.2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:32
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
vif11.2-emu Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 42:E1:CD:FD:49:96
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:58 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:156 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:500
RX bytes:11434 (11.1 KiB) TX bytes:33034 (32.2 KiB)
vif11.3 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:32
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
vif11.3-emu Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 56:9C:27:07:51:7B
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:83 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:232 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:500
RX bytes:18617 (18.1 KiB) TX bytes:54711 (53.4 KiB)
vif11.4 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:32
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
vif11.4-emu Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 6E:9D:14:31:22:CC
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:82 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:231 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:500
RX bytes:18543 (18.1 KiB) TX bytes:54637 (53.3 KiB)
106d92e2f9 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 80:30:E0:31:76:44
inet addr:192.168.108.23 Bcast:192.168.108.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:221395 errors:0 dropped:77139 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2239 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:50693498 (48.3 MiB) TX bytes:94038 (91.8 KiB)
108cfed76c Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 80:30:E0:31:76:44
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:298 errors:0 dropped:112 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:67996 (66.4 KiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)