On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 2:00 PM Reco <recovery...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 01:18:52PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > Hi, I've never used OVH. How certain are you that the e1000 network driver > > is the correct one? > > Under VMWare/ESX the network driver choice can be crucial, for example. > > 1) You cannot run Xen in VSphere/ESXi.
I didn't suggest that one could. Only that network driver choice is crucial to network performance in a virtual setting. Hence I wrote "For example". > 2) No sane public provider will use VSphere/ESXi for hosting, the costs > can dim a budget of a small country. See above. I'm a customer, I'm familiar with the costs. > 3) e1000e may be bad, but vmxnet3 will make oom-killer an everyday > reality. SR-IOV is a way to go. You simply can't get good high-level throughput using e1000 under ESX. But that wasn't the point. Instead it was that driver selection and config can be crucial in a virtual env.
