Multiple-NIC vMotion tunning 2x 40Gbps

Tuning multi-NIC vMotion for monster SAP HANA VMs (1–3 TB RAM): advanced settings that made vMotion 4x faster across 2x 40 Gbps on Cisco VIC 1340.

Because for Monster SAP HANA VM (1-3 TB RAM) I tuned several AdvSystemSettings.

In the end I was able to speedup vMotion 4x times and utilize 2x flow with 40 Gbps – VIC 1340 with PE.

Inspiration was:

It is in production from 04/2018, My tuned final settings is:

AdvSystemSettingsDefaultTunningDesc
Migrate.VMotionStreamHelpers08Number of helpers to allocate for VMotion streams
Net.NetNetqTxPackKpps300600Max TX queue load (in thousand packet per second) to allow packing on the corresponding RX queue
Net.NetNetqTxUnpackKpps6001200Threshold (in thousand packet per second) for TX queue load to trigger unpacking of the corresponding RX queue
Net.MaxNetifTxQueueLen200010000Maximum length of the Tx queue for the physical NICs – toto stačí pro urychlení VM komunikace

Author: Daniel Micanek

Senior Service Architect, SAP/TDL Platform Services Team at Vivicta | vExpert ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Broadcom Knight: vSphere Kubernetes Service, VCF Networking (NSX), VCF Automation | Broadcom Software Knight: vSphere | Cisco Champion. Notes from running about 1,000 ESXi hosts on Cisco UCS, VCF 9 and SAP HANA on vSphere.