Proxmox - Issues 10gbe adapter 1gbe link speed?

[RasmusDC]

Now i am a noob at Linux, and old noob, but a noob.

 

currently i am running a Proxmox setup, with 3 VM´s on it, a Truenas, Plex ubunto and a Windows enviroment.. runs perfect. 

 

the pc is a 28 thread Xeon 2680V4 with 64 Gig of ram, i have an Asus 10gbe NIC with SFP+ connector, and i want to run 10gbe on my network..

 

now i have moved the ethernet connection in proxmox from the onboard adapter (1gbit) to the Asus and it is linked with my XG 16 Unifi router with 10Gbit speeds. all the VM´s has the adapter chosen, and i have disabled onboard, so gateway is trough the Asus.

 

i have checked link with and it is running 3.0 X4 so bandwidth should be enough... but if i hit 100MB/sec downloads on f.ex. the windows machine, the VM becomes sluggish, and there is no more. so it seems the network adapter, somehow still only works a a 1Gbit.. but i am not sure.

[RasmusDC]

just for information. as i see it in proxmox the adapter runs in 10gbit fiber.. so i am still a bit perplexed.

 

Settings for ens2:
        Supported ports: [ FIBRE ]
        Supported link modes:   100baseT/Full 
                                1000baseT/Full 
                                10000baseT/Full 
                                2500baseT/Full 
                                5000baseT/Full 
        Supported pause frame use: Symmetric
        Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
        Supported FEC modes: Not reported
        Advertised link modes:  100baseT/Full 
                                1000baseT/Full 
                                10000baseT/Full 
                                2500baseT/Full 
                                5000baseT/Full 
        Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric
        Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
        Advertised FEC modes: Not reported
        Speed: 10000Mb/s
        Duplex: Full
        Port: FIBRE
        PHYAD: 0
        Transceiver: internal
        Auto-negotiation: on
        Supports Wake-on: g
        Wake-on: d
        Link detected: yes

[2FA]

What's the link speed in Windows? For mine they show as 10Gbps in the VM as well.

[RasmusDC]

it shows 1000/1000 in windows, but proxmox is 10000mbit link.. hmmmm... 

 

so it is 10gbit in proxmox but only 1000mbit on the VM´s it should be possible to change

[RasmusDC]

now i am trying to learn... so i am sorry if i seem a bit behind on this..

 

so my Linux distributions run some "paravirt" driver, that shows in my truenas and ubunto server as 10gbe.. so that is fine

 

the windows has 4 options, but the only one that works is the E1000 driver, which is a 1/1gbe, if i try to forward the PCI card directly then i fubar the Proxmox (it got angry) recovered that, so i guess i cannot forward the driver.

 

i would like full 1Gbit, since i have 1/1 fiber, and the windows machine is actually consuming most of this, with what it does, so the running remote on it, when it goes above 700mbit of transfer, just goes bonkers..

 

my guess is i need somehow to get a 10gbe Aquantia driver in linux, in my prox mox distribution that i set as the "network" on the windows system... but then my knowledge of linux completely stops, i have tried searching for a way to infuse the ASUS 10gbe C100F card.. but why do i need a driver, since it seems to be working everywhere except windows.

[RasmusDC]

might as well just answer what happened instead of deleting all my comments.

 

installed the virtiual Windows iso, got the paravirt drivers, and now it works, so it was just a driver in windows issue..

 

Sorry for the time.