Throughput

[forall]

Hi Gr-R,

MPIO, you have mean multipathing, without any port link aggregation?

[To-M]

This is correct to use MPIO as MPIO provides multiple streams for I/O where a bond only provides a single stream. Also MPIO provides path failover as well.

[Gr-R]

Yes, MPIO will give you the aggregation you are looking for as well as redundancy. This can be done with multiple single paths, or multiple bonds.

[forall]

Hi,
I read this article http://blog.open-e.com/bonding-versus-mpio-explained/ and as I good understood, when I have 2x1GbE NIC on server and storage DSS and run multipathing on my XenServer I should have bandwith ~2Gbit/s and theoretical throughput 200MB/s, correct?

[Gr-R]

Hi,
I read this article http://blog.open-e.com/bonding-versus-mpio-explained/ and as I good understood, when I have 2x1GbE NIC on server and storage DSS and run multipathing on my XenServer I should have bandwith ~2Gbit/s and theoretical throughput 200MB/s, correct?

This is correct.