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

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