Disk performance on ESXi with FreeBSD 7.1

Sebastiaan van Erk sebster at sebster.com
Wed Feb 11 02:48:30 PST 2009


H,

Oliver Brandmueller wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 07:57:06PM +0100, Sebastiaan van Erk wrote:
>> Thanks a lot though for the help, if I can do/test anything else, I'm 
>> right on it.
> 
> Did you try using the ATA instead of SCSI emulation im vmware? I've even 
> seen Linux guests where that helped. I dunno if this thenstill an option 
> for prod for you, however, since ist emulated anyway I don't see reasons 
> why it shouldn't be.

As far as I know, this is not an option in ESXi. The only disk 
controllers you can choose are the LSI Logic and the BusLogic ones, both 
SCSI.

Regards,
Sebastiaan

> 
> - Olli
> 
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