[114157] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 10-GigE for servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Hannan)
Sat May 2 15:22:55 2009
Date: Sat, 02 May 2009 12:22:31 -0700
From: Alan Hannan <alan@routingloop.com>
To: Jason Shoemaker <jdshoemaker@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <81ecd7700905011055y3fd14276pbb78c2b80882da63@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
The 10G cards from Neterion
(http://www.neterion.com/products/xframeE.html) perform extremely well.
Much of your potential limiting rate will be in the CPU and networking
resources.
I agree with many of the other folks that etherchannel should work
exceedingly well, but if you want to consolidate, there are many choices
for single-system 10G ethernet cards.
-alan
Jason Shoemaker wrote:
> My company is looking for ways to improve throughput for data transfers
> between individual servers. We’re exploring the creation of Etherchannels
> using multiple server NICs, but Etherchannel seems to have the limitation of
> not supporting per-packet load-balancing, therefore limiting traffic between
> two individual hosts to 1 Gig.
>
> In most of my research, I’ve seen 10-GigE used for traffic aggregation and
> for the “unified fabric” solution that Cisco and others are pushing. I’m
> 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
>
