[ovirt-users] oVIRT 3.5 / Virtual Machine / 10GB possible?

[Yaniv Kaul]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017, 7:50 PM Devin Acosta <devin at pabstatencio.com> wrote:

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> Yaniv,
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> So are you telling me that the virtual machine will get 10Gbit speeds even
> though it only reports 1Gbit?
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Yes, theoretically. The historical reason is that when it was developed,
there was a need to display some link speed (ethtool, Windows device
manager) and back then 1g seemed like high speed.

Getting really 10g is a challenge, but I have seen 7-8g on a bright day.
Y.


> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 10:43 AM, Yaniv Kaul <ykaul at redhat.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017, 7:04 PM Devin Acosta <devin at pabstatencio.com> wrote:
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> We are running oVIRT 3.5, until one of vendors supports us moving to 4.0.
> Our RHV hosts have 20GB aggregated NICs on the box, however our VM's I
> notice only have 1GB NICs available. I do see that the Virtual machine is
> using the "virtio-net-pci" device, is there a way to get this Virtual
> Machine to have a 10GB NIC? When i run 'atop' on the RHV host I notice that
> it claims the virtual NIC is hitting 100% utilization at times.
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> Disregard that number. It's a virtual NIC, and so is the 1g number.
> Y.
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> What methods do I have available to increase the 1GB NIC to something
> higher hopefully to 10GB ?
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