On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Giovanni Tirloni <gtirl...@sysdroid.com> wrote: ... > Link aggregation will give you higher total throughput but individual > transfers will still be limited to the maximum bandwidth of a single > NIC. > > Depending on the port selection policy that you define, more than one > client could be using the same NIC. Read dladm(1M) for more details > (create-aggr subcommand). > > You are not going to get more than 1Gbps for each transfer though. > Perhaps you should look into 10Gbps NICs if that can't be worked > around. > > As a result of multiple NICs being aggregated, you will get better > availability in case one NIC dies. However, the remaining NICs should > be sized accordingly to accept the additional load. > > >> >> Also, do i really need a managed switch to connect these or can this >> be done through a direct cross cable connection? > > I've never used link aggregation with crossover cables but I suppose > it would work if both sides understand how to do it. > > A managed switch is your best option in the long run. > > -- > Giovanni >
Thanks Giovanni. Appreciate the inputs. One more question. Do you know if intel's quad nic based on igbX driver will work under link aggregation? The iscsi target is an opensolaris 2009.06 box and the initiators are on Solaris 10 u8. Thanks in advance. d.y _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list storage-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
