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Re: Debian 9.2, VSphere 6.5.0, "TCP performance may be compromised"

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I wrote:
> Right. But it's a big company and I can't influence when or how ESX gets
upgraded.

Perhaps I should explain that everywhere I've worked that uses VMware, the
VMware
admins are almost always current or former Windows admins. Naturally that's
because
there are hundreds-to-thousands of desktops being driven out of VMware, and
many now
are Horizon so they don't even have full, real hardware, so they're
VMware-dependent.

As a result of these "facts on the ground", linux VMs do not have the
"administrator mindshare"
that Windows VMs have with the VMware system admins (current/former Windows
admins).
Not even if they are fundamental to the business.

As I mentioned, it's more sociology than computer science.

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 1:51 PM, Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 1:25 PM, Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> wrote:
>
>> Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > And unfortunately the HTML5 version of the VSphere app doesn't permit
>> > editing of, for example, that vmxnet3 parameter for mitigation of
>> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191201#c49
>>
>> You don't need all that stuff if you are not on ESX 6.5. So no need to
>> try to edit those values. And if you upgrade to 6.5 eventually, just use
>> at
>
> least 6.5u1, then you are safe.
>>
>
> Right. But it's a big company and I can't influence when or how ESX gets
> upgraded.
> I can only prepare my VMs for their new lives in this hard, cold, virtual
> world; and this
> was the first attempt with Debian 9.2 on the current VMware release.
> Results were bad.
>
> If I am doing my job OK, that VM will never once be booted in its
> years-long lifetime. But
> if  the boss ever sees that "TCP performance may be compromised" message
> on a
> production server, or if it ever kills or cripples the OS or apps, I will
> have a very personal
> problem very rapidly.
>
> It's really more about sociology than about computer science.
>
>
>> S°
>> --
>> Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.
>>
>>
>

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Debian 9.2, VSphere 6.5.0, "TCP performance may be compromised" Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2017-10-18 17:10 +0200
  Re: Debian 9.2, VSphere 6.5.0, "TCP performance may be compromised" Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2017-10-18 17:30 +0200
    Re: Debian 9.2, VSphere 6.5.0, "TCP performance may be compromised" Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2017-10-18 18:10 +0200
      Re: Debian 9.2, VSphere 6.5.0, "TCP performance may be compromised" Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2017-10-18 18:40 +0200
        Re: Debian 9.2, VSphere 6.5.0, "TCP performance may be compromised" Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2017-10-19 19:00 +0200
          Re: Debian 9.2, VSphere 6.5.0, "TCP performance may be compromised" deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-10-19 19:50 +0200
            Re: Debian 9.2, VSphere 6.5.0, "TCP performance may be compromised" Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2017-10-19 20:30 +0200
          Re: Debian 9.2, VSphere 6.5.0, "TCP performance may be compromised" Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2017-10-19 20:30 +0200
            Re: Debian 9.2, VSphere 6.5.0, "TCP performance may be compromised" Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2017-10-19 21:00 +0200
              Re: Debian 9.2, VSphere 6.5.0, "TCP performance may be compromised" Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2017-10-19 21:20 +0200

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