I picked up a budget dedicated server from my hosting company.
Supermicro X9SCD
CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1270v2
Installed ESXi 6.7 on it.
My first sign of trouble was the GUI. The login page, at https://machine/ui/ can take 4 minutes to load.
I assumed it was related to the old server hardware, so I just lived with it.
I installed windows 10 as a guest and one of the first things was to perform a speed test.
Download 79.32 Mbps - that is about good, I'm paying for 100 Mbps
Upload 1.13 Mbps - WHAT?!?!
There is just no upload speed, which explains why it takes so long to do anything through the GUI. I'm pushing all the HTML files through a small straw.
I tried to see if this server is on the HCL, but there is nothing listed. I did a search for Supermicro & processor Xeon E3-1200 v2 series and not a single match comes up.
When I check the NIC through VMWare ( lspci -v | grep -A1 -i ethernet ) it reports the NIC as Intel 82580 Gigabit Network Connection.
Am I out of luck with this hardware or could the problem be something else. Seems odd it would be OK for download speeds but no good for upload.