[Cyber Explorer] just recently ditched his collection of physical computers functioning as servers by virtualizing the great deal of them. however with every modification there’s a drawback. Although it wasn’t as well difficult for him to set up the online machines, he did end up costs rather a bit of time trying to enhance the bandwidth. thankfully he published an post chronicling all of the VM tweaks he utilized to enhance the system.
The experience includes both a Windows 8 machine, in addition to a some Linux boxes indicating there’s something right here for everybody. At each step in the process he performs some throughput tests to see exactly how the boxes are performing. Tweaks are numerous, however include trying out different Ethernet drivers, making sure all modules are as much as date, squashing at least one bug, as well as providing jumbo-frames a try.
[Thanks Omri]