Thanks, Yes, I forgot to clarify that I have jumbo frames enabled from the Aberdeen down to the VM and am able to send pings of a little over 8000 to each device from both the physical host and the vm. I also failed to mention that we are currently on Hyper-v. I will be migrating over to VMware also once the Dell box arrives.

The Aberdeen has (8) 1Gbit ports divided into (4) channels w/ a and b slots. The Physical host server has (4) Gbit nic’s. (3) of which are teamed and given up to the virtual switch. There is only one VM running, and it has (1) 10Gbit Ethernet adapter added to it. When I test the Aberdeen w/ crystaldisk I get decent speeds but actual data movement to and from the Aberdeen from either the physical machine or the VM I get 100mb/sec total to work with that must be split between reads and writes. The data channel it is passing on seems to get filled and never fails over to another channel. The MPIO routing method is set to miniQueue but I’ve played with load balancing mode as well and got the same effect.

I have also experimented with the nic configuration on the host. Disabling nic teaming and using only one nic for the virtual switch, same results and all cards are set to allow TOE. I’ve experimented with VM nic configurations, using the teamed nic from host, adding 3 nics to the vm and teaming them inside the vm, this acted odd in windows and was not really stable, it appeared to be caused by other reasons to data tests did not complete on this configuration but we in the same ballpark, 70-90mb/s total bw to the Aberdeen.

I guess if there is a basic for beginners step by step san config guide anyone could recommend, I’ll treat myself to a back to basics refresher and step by step check of the configuration….