Quote Originally Posted by jmo
Rasmus,

have you looked at the various channel bundling options, esp. 802.3ad? That should give you load balancing across two or more active/active links, if your switch supports this. You'd then have a single bond0 interface with a single IP and since you use two client machines, the connections should be assigned to different network interfaces.

Using IPs from the same subnet for multiple interfaces of the DSS does enable load balancing for incoming traffic only - all traffic from DSS to the server will most probably use the interface with the default route. So if you have only high write traffic, but fairly low read traffic to/from the iSCSI devices, you'd be fine. (Just kidding - that should be an extremely rare case )

With regards,
Jens
Well, that depends on various things. First, if your switch, like mine only handles 802.3ad using some kind of XOR operation, you won't see any speed bump at all. That has been discussed several time on this forum and I suggest that you take your time and read through the respective threads.

In essence: if you want better performance, buy faster network equipment, like a 10 GbE card.

You can achieve what you actually want, to have the to VMs connected through "seperated" lines, using 802.3ad though. You maybe have to do some math with your IP addresses, but that depends on how your switch "routes" the packets initially. If yo do that right, you can take advantage of up to the number of trunk members you have, but each connection will only run at the speed of that physical connection.

Cheers,
budy