[114108] in North American Network Operators' Group
10-GigE for servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Shoemaker)
Fri May 1 13:55:51 2009
Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 13:55:46 -0400
From: Jason Shoemaker <jdshoemaker@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
My company is looking for ways to improve throughput for data transfers
between individual servers. We=92re exploring the creation of Etherchannel=
s
using multiple server NICs, but Etherchannel seems to have the limitation o=
f
not supporting per-packet load-balancing, therefore limiting traffic betwee=
n
two individual hosts to 1 Gig.
In most of my research, I=92ve seen 10-GigE used for traffic aggregation an=
d
for the =93unified fabric=94 solution that Cisco and others are pushing. I=
=92m
interested in knowing if any of you have attempted to implement 10-GigE at
the host level to improve network throughput between individual servers and
what your experience was in doing so.
Thanks in advance,
Jason
