To be more precise: I am looking for some guidelines what to expect for a single Vnic talking to multiple targets. Alan pointed to the z/VM performance documents for general LA performance, but that does not address what I am asking for. Theoretical: when I aggregate 8 10GbE OSA's I have a throughput of 8 GB/s. Can I expect a single Vnic to handle that traffic? Obviously not. But what can I expect? What does it depend on? Best regards, Pieter Harder [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel +31-73-6837133 / +31-6-47272537
>>> Bill Bitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/20/07 5:34 >>> One should not expect Link Aggregation to improve the performance of a single Vnic talking to a single target. The packets associated with a single conversation (probably not the right term) are not shuffled across the different OSAs or spread across them. We do spread different conversations across different OSAs with load balancing. The z/VM Performance Report has additional details: http://www.vm.ibm.com/perf/reports/zvm/html/linkagg.html Regards, Bill Bitner ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 Brabant Water N.V. Postbus 1068 5200 BC 's-Hertogenbosch http://www.brabantwater.nl Handelsregister: 16005077 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
