On Sep 9, 2008, at 4:30 AM, Robert Milkowski wrote: > Hello Ben, > > Saturday, September 6, 2008, 10:44:28 PM, you wrote: > > > BR> You can aggregate Ethernet; however this may not deliver the > performance > BR> you expect. If you take 4x 1Gbps links and aggregate them you > won't > BR> have a single 4Gbps link in the traditional sense... rather, > you'll have > BR> 4 links over which traffic is balanced. If you have only a > single TCP > BR> stream you'll still be limited to the throughput of a single > link. For > BR> the purposes of iSCSI this may be overcome by using multiple- > sessions, > BR> though I haven't tested this. > > Actually when you do a link aggregation you should get 4Gb/s even for > single tcp connection (putting other possible bottlenecks aside). > If you use interface groups then you right, each tcp connection will > go out using only one link.
I have never seen it work that way with aggregation (using iscsi), can you reference a configuration that maybe we haven't tried? -Andy > > > -- > Best regards, > Robert Milkowski mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://milek.blogspot.com > > _______________________________________________ > storage-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
