peconi
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- Feb 1, 2012
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I spun up a really big Virtual Machine in my VMware environment running FreeNAS 8.0.3-p1.
- 24GB of RAM
- 15x2TB FC Drives (28TB RaidZ Pool)
- 8x2.66 vCPUs
- 4xGbit NICs
I do not run Cisco 1000V but rather standard VMware DV Switches on vSphere 4.1.
While I am getting 150+MB/sec on a single NIC via NFS - I would like to bind the 4 NICs (or more) into a lagg for even more performance. I know my drives and config can do it, the network is the bottleneck here for sure.
Reading around the web, I found that DV Switches do not support LACP or FEC.
I tried using Load Balance and Round Robin, however, when I add my NICs in this type of a config, my PING returns a lot of dupes, and MOUNT command won't actually mount the NFS target.
Any suggestion/help/advise would really help. I would like to have more than 1Gig interface for this box - therefore binding the NICs seems like my only solution.
Thanks in advance!
- 24GB of RAM
- 15x2TB FC Drives (28TB RaidZ Pool)
- 8x2.66 vCPUs
- 4xGbit NICs
I do not run Cisco 1000V but rather standard VMware DV Switches on vSphere 4.1.
While I am getting 150+MB/sec on a single NIC via NFS - I would like to bind the 4 NICs (or more) into a lagg for even more performance. I know my drives and config can do it, the network is the bottleneck here for sure.
Reading around the web, I found that DV Switches do not support LACP or FEC.
I tried using Load Balance and Round Robin, however, when I add my NICs in this type of a config, my PING returns a lot of dupes, and MOUNT command won't actually mount the NFS target.
Any suggestion/help/advise would really help. I would like to have more than 1Gig interface for this box - therefore binding the NICs seems like my only solution.
Thanks in advance!