Disk performance on ESXi with FreeBSD 7.1

Oliver Brandmueller ob at e-Gitt.NET
Wed Feb 11 03:08:01 PST 2009


Hi,

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:48:14AM +0100, Sebastiaan van Erk wrote:
> > 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.

*argh* OK... I've just seen it in vmware server and afaik also in ESX, 
didn't know about ESXi not offering ATA emulation :-( Sorry.

- Olli

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