[ale] network question

[James Taylor]

We're looking at moving to 10GB on the iSCSI storage for some of our clients.  The gig links are starting to show some bottlenecks for some of the LUNs supporting databases.
-jt



James Taylor
The East Cobb Group, Inc.
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>>> "James P. Kinney III" <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> 08/27/07 12:55 PM >>> 
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 09:18 -0700, Bruce wrote:
> Off topic, and of no help - but Man!!!! What are you
> running? 4 Gigabit NICs bonded? That is some serious
> throughput!
> 

It actually feeds a SAN device running 10G :) Each server has 6 Gb Nics.
New design has 3 up and 3 downstream bonded. Upstream (to AoE array)
uses jumbo frames (which works nicely with a 4k blocks - get 2 blocks in
one call).

Multiple servers accessing an AoE storage array. 500MB/s throughput from
the storage array. 

Ran the bonded 4 Gb Nics on a large scale LTSP project. That provided
the data pipe downstream to the 100+ thin clients hanging off each
server.

I am called "The Over Engineer".  :)

Bandwidth was NOT going to be the bottleneck! 
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