Hi all,
I’m new to vyos but have done ccna/ccnp stuff before so happy with how vyos is working so far. I’m using it running as a VM on an esxi host and I’m a bit confused as to some of the performance results I’m getting and just want to understand why.
I have the VYOS VM, a Win 7 VM (VLAN2) and a Server VM (VLAN3) all connected to the same vswitch in esxi. Using router on a stick and subinterfaces to route between the VLANS using VYOS, all great.
Also connected to the same vswitch is an uplink to a cisco router, which I also se tup to route between the same VLANS. Out of curiosity I wanted to see how the performance compared using LAN bench.
The cisco router is 100mbs and so I set the eth0 interface in vyso as 100 mbs full duplex (set interfaces ethernet eth0 speed 100 ) and ran the same performance test in vyos vs the physical router.
As expected, cisco average throughput was close to fast Ethernet net =88.7Mb/s.
However vyos was closer to gigabit = 670 Mb/s which is way higher than it should be, any ideas?
I don’t have a gigabit cisco router so essentially was wanting to change the variables to match for testing but no joy. Is this a vyos issue or ESXI? I changed the guest VM adapters in windows settings to 100mb but still the same result??
UPDATE: Seems its just the way esxi works, since the network traffic never leaves the same machine, the bandwidth is basically just reliant on the cpu/ram and bandwidth settings are ignored for VM 2 VM. Now thinking ill have to run VYOS as a physical machine on another host to perform the test.