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Use Case: Link Aggregation to Maximize iSCSI

By Andrew Bruce Posted on April 19, 2013 Posted in Network, Storage, Teknocratica No Comments Tagged with iscsi, network, vmware

The vSphere solution allows Storage vMotion and other functions that require the greatest amount of bandwidth possible, especially given the fact that we do leverage local blade storage for particular VMs. (What we lose in resiliency we gain back in …

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Jumbo Frames – Use Case for ESXi5, NetApp, and Cisco/NetGear Switches

By Andrew Bruce Posted on April 18, 2013 Posted in Network, Storage, Teknocratica 4 Comments Tagged with iscsi, jumbo frame

Jumbo frames are used for iSCSI (which use 8192 byte frames) to avoid IP fragmentation, thus improving network throughput by reducing the overall number of frames transmitted. Jumbo frames are by convention 9000 bytes which is ample for iSCSI traffic …

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Use Case: Link Aggregation to Maximize iSCSI

Jumbo Frames – Use Case for ESXi5, NetApp, and Cisco/NetGear Switches