Enabling Jumbo frames on VMXNET3 adapter in Windows Server 2012

Hello everyone on the forums of wonderful Equallogic :)

We have a PS4100X of the virtual computer running on vSphere 5.1 EQL. Everything works very well, and we are about to migrate a VM 2012 SQL our database. I did some research on the issue of whether we should allow the frames extended on the VMXNET3 adapter in the virtual machine.

Reading this white paper, it seems there are large performance benefits to enable jumbo frames and a few other options in the NETWORK adapter settings:

http://en.community.Dell.com/TechCenter/Extras/m/white_papers/20403565.aspx

Just curious as to how other people and if they saw an improvement in performance. Someone at - he had experience with this?

Thank you

Lee

Frames being good or bad, is highly dependent on the switching infrastructure.   If the switches do not manage flowcontrol and frames, then performance could be worse with frames enabled.

If the switches are not on the list certified for EQL tables, I tend to start with the standard frames, get a baseline run, then try frames gradually and do things of course worsen.

Extended frames may provide an advantage, he will never be a huge increase, but it improves the efficiency of the network and could reduce the overhead of the processor.    Which are not mandatory for EQL iSCSI environments.

Please check best practices with document ESX.  That can really help to maximize your performance with storage EQL.

http://en.community.Dell.com/TechCenter/Extras/m/white_papers/20434601.aspx

Kind regards

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