Hello all,
I find it difficult to get results from google searches. Has anyone been able to get 10Gb networking to run at a decent performance(>1.5Gbps) in VMware Workstation?
I have two machines with 10Gb HW network adapters connected point-to-point.
1. FreeNAS server with a samba share.
2. Win10 host running WS 15 with another FreeNAS server VM running.
Network is setup as bridged inside the VM, the adapter HW is VMXNET3 set from editing the .vmx file
In normal operation, copying from machine 1 samba share to local disk on machine 2 works with 1.15GB/s. Both machines are reading/writing to SSD media, they are able to saturate the 10Gb link copying to/from shares in the host OS.
Copying data from machine 1 samba share to the guest VM samba share on machine 2 from the host OS results in 100Mb/s at best, average is less than that. Guest OS configures the VMXNET3 card just fine, it comes with vmware-tools preinstalled.
Guest VM has 4 cores allocated and 32Gb of RAM. Host CPU is I7 9800X@3.8Ghz base clock.
I know VMXNET3 on WS is not really supported but I would expect at least higher than 1Gbps speeds.
Any help is greatly appreciated.