leenux_tux
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Hello Forum,
I am interested in finding out what experience, good or bad, people are having with network switches/hubs.
I use my FreeNAS box for home and work tasks. Serving up music and movies but also for keeping backups. It's also used as an iSCSI target for housing VMware ESXi storage.
I recently made a few alterations to my setup as the VMware guest response times were awful, purchasing a "NETGEAR GS605 5-Port Unmanaged Gigabit Switch", plus creating a dedicated virtual switch on VMware used for iSCSI (I also added a physical NIC for this sole purpose as well), which helped a lot and I was very pleased with the results
I am however looking to see if I can speed things up even more.
What switches are folks using in conjunction with FreeNAS ?? Especially in a home/small office environment ?? My switch is an unmanaged one, will a managed one give me increased speed? The switch supports full duplex, is it worth forcing full duplex on my FreeNAS and iSCSI NICS ??
Thankx
Leenux_tux
I am interested in finding out what experience, good or bad, people are having with network switches/hubs.
I use my FreeNAS box for home and work tasks. Serving up music and movies but also for keeping backups. It's also used as an iSCSI target for housing VMware ESXi storage.
I recently made a few alterations to my setup as the VMware guest response times were awful, purchasing a "NETGEAR GS605 5-Port Unmanaged Gigabit Switch", plus creating a dedicated virtual switch on VMware used for iSCSI (I also added a physical NIC for this sole purpose as well), which helped a lot and I was very pleased with the results
I am however looking to see if I can speed things up even more.
What switches are folks using in conjunction with FreeNAS ?? Especially in a home/small office environment ?? My switch is an unmanaged one, will a managed one give me increased speed? The switch supports full duplex, is it worth forcing full duplex on my FreeNAS and iSCSI NICS ??
Thankx
Leenux_tux