Hi! Performance is as good as running routerOS on the bare metal as far as I can tell ;) We use VM router on our DuxTel Commander (ISP customer management solution) as a firewall appliance between the public facing network and VM infrastructure hosts. The various servers (radius, billing, customer-portal, database, mail, dns, web, ftp, etc) all run as independent VMs connected to a virtual switch network inside the VMWare infrastructure, and the RouterOS connects to that virtual switch and has just a single interface to the world. It works VERY well indeed, and efficiency is excellent both on cloud infrastructure services (rackcentral, zettagrid) as well as our own VSphere platform :) Cheers! Mike. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- Why Choose DuxTel for all your MikroTik needs? 10 good reasons: http://duxtel.com/why_duxtel ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- Follow our tweets for news and updates: http://twitter.com/duxtel
-----Original Message----- From: Public [mailto:public-bounces@talk.mikrotik.com.au] On Behalf Of Purdon, Bob Sent: Tuesday, 25 August 2015 10:56 AM To: MikroTik Australia Public List <public@talk.mikrotik.com.au> Subject: Re: [MT-AU Public] vmxnet3 in ROS now
Whatever the reason, it is certainly a very interesting and cool development - there are a growing number of RouterOS deployments like this, and it will definitely be one to watch! :)
Out of interest, what level of performance should I expect if I were to deploy RouterOS on an ESX server without the vmxnet3 driver?
The use case here is as a home router - I currently use an RB1100, which routes my NBN connection with no issues, and handles routing between 3 VLANs. I often move 600-800 megabits within a VLAN, but traffic routed between VLANs is rarely more than 5-10mbps.
Not sure I want to operate my router as a VM yet - introduces various new failure modes - but am curious what the performance would look like if I were to try it. _______________________________________________ Public mailing list Public@talk.mikrotik.com.au http://talk.mikrotik.com.au/mailman/listinfo/public_talk.mikrotik.com.au