[ale] network question

[James P. Kinney III]

On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 22:10 -0400, James Taylor wrote:
> 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
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If you can do 802.3ad (link aggregation) you can squeeze more use out of
the 1G stuff. But the next bottleneck becomes the array itself.

I'm looking at the coraid AoE monster that has a 10G port (and 2 1G as
well). It can serve out 500+MB/sec and you can pack 16TB in a 3U shelf.

The thought of having to backup 16TB to tape....<shudder>... call my
friend at Fermi lab.
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> James Taylor
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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!
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> 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).
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> Multiple servers accessing an AoE storage array. 500MB/s throughput from
> the storage array. 
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> 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.
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> I am called "The Over Engineer".  :)
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> Bandwidth was NOT going to be the bottleneck! 
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