Hi All I'm in the process of setting up new ESXi blade servers with a dual port 10Gb Emulex card capable of multichannel (effectively making 8 virtual NICS). Now when I enable multi-channel 8 vNICS show up in VMWare but they are all displaying as 10GB connections, and I have confirmed the switch is set to autonegotiate. As I understand it each of the 8 NICs should really be 2.5 Gb, but thats not what displaying.
I was wondering if each of these NICS is capable of using 10GB worth of bandwidth if its available, or are they actually capped at 2.5GB each? (is there anyway to test this?)
(Side Note: I know I'm suppose to adjust the bandwidth % in the bios/uefi, but when I do that it forces me to tag a differnt vlan on each function, which breaks my mgmt connection and disconnects my server from the VDS. I'm trying to figure that one out, but was mainly asking about the throughput capability if the % is set to 0, like it is now)