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luckybuilding
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10G support on VMware?

Fri Aug 15, 2014 2:14 pm

Hi all,
I wanna reach 10G speed on the virtual environment. As I checked the forum, all say that MT supports all linux kernel supports! Then, according to some links VMXNET3 is supported on kernel 2.6.37 & later. (http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/micros ... Id=2020567)


Moreover, according to some other links like this (http://mum.mikrotik.com/presentations/RU13/megis.pdf) MT 6.x uses kernel 3.3.5+

Then, the big question is why can't MT detect the NIC & load its driver?!!!


Is there any other solution I can reach 10G speed on the vmware environment?

Thanks
 
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Re: 10G support on VMware?

Fri Aug 15, 2014 2:26 pm

you cannot as VMXNET3 does not have kernel modules in RouterOS.
 
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Re: 10G support on VMware?

Fri Aug 15, 2014 7:12 pm

you cannot as VMXNET3 does not have kernel modules in RouterOS.
Thanks for your reply. Does this need MT developer team to include it?

However, is there anyway to reach 10G for MT on vmware?
 
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Re: 10G support on VMware?

Sat Aug 16, 2014 12:26 am

I think MikroTik do not want see his RouterOS freely used with cloned VMware all around the world.

I doubt MikroTik add some vmware specific driver.
For what do? Simply one single user buy the licence (I not mean you), and later all the world can use free RouterOS without any remuneration for the developer.

But all of this, are my opinion... I think.
 
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Re: 10G support on VMware?

Sun Aug 17, 2014 8:00 pm

MT just need to change their license code from being hard disk dependant. It's not very clever anyways.
 
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Re: 10G support on VMware?

Mon Aug 18, 2014 10:27 am

There have been other threads on this, but just uncase this one turns out differently

+1 for vmnext3 support.
and vmtools support as well

I have paid for all of my vm's :)
 
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Re: 10G support on VMware?

Mon Aug 18, 2014 9:47 pm

There have been other threads on this, but just uncase this one turns out differently

+1 for vmnext3 support.
and vmtools support as well

I have paid for all of my vm's :)
I really want see that if is true... :wink:
 
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Re: 10G support on VMware?

Tue Sep 23, 2014 5:13 pm

There have been other threads on this, but just uncase this one turns out differently

+1 for vmnext3 support.
and vmtools support as well

I have paid for all of my vm's :)

+1 for full support for VMware virtrualization
 
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Re: 10G support on VMware?

Mon Sep 29, 2014 5:15 pm

Not to detract from VMWare, which I use on a few networks, but having support for Hyper-V would also be a welcome enhancement.
 
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Re: 10G support on VMware?

Sat Nov 22, 2014 11:18 pm

I appreciate the efforts with Tilera platform but pursuit of specific hardware integration of RouterOS causes lost of focus over the real ***CLOUD*** expectations, requirements and interests. In my opinion Mikrotik need to be more flexible and open minded to virtual environments because it's not necessary to give examples with Vyatta and many other software router/firewalls. Mikrotik and particularly Router OS have the ***potential*** to be worthy player on SDN market although the competition in this field is really strong. From business perspective the software defined cloud market currently uses much more virtual appliances than physical and presence on this field will bring more value. Definitely the licensing code could not be excuse!
I really like RouterOS and use Mikrotik hardware but in the long term Mikrotik cuts the branch you are sitting on if preserve the status quo. In my opinion you have to allocate more resources in virtualisation capabilities not only metarouter.
I agree - vmxnet3 and VMtools integration is really good starting point.

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