How to test throughput on management network

[bkboudreaugd]

Hello,

I am hoping to test the network throughput between 2 of my ESXi hosts.  I found an old article on VMware (Testing the vmkernel network performance using the nc command (2052119) (vmware.com)), but I have tried a half dozen ports and I never get any connections.  I tried entering just "nc" at the prompt to see what switch options there were and none of the ones vmware said to use were listed.

Am I doing something wrong or is the article so old now that it is no longer accurate?  Can someone let me know if there is something I can do to test network throughput between my ESXi hosts?

Thank you!

[Scott Vessey]

The KB does say it only applies from 3.5-5.1

[kastlr]

Hi,

 

the following article should provide some guidance.

How to use iPerf to test bandwidth between source host and target vSphere Replication appliance

[bkboudreaugd]

Thank you for the link, I appreciate it.

I am trying to follow the steps there however if I try anything with iptables I am told that the command doesn't exist.  I did disable the firewall using the earlier steps so I am confused why I would have to add rules to iptables, but that doesn't matter much since it doesn't look like iptables exists.

Any ideas?  Thanks again.

Edit: Apparently I missed a dash on the --client command so iperf didn't work properly (though there was no error so I thought the FW was still blocking).  No iptables commands were needed.