Re: Trunking query
- From: Darren Dunham <ddunham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:18:47 GMT
ddhcl <dave.doherty@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone know if there is a performance benefit to using trunking ?
It certainly depends on what you're doing. In some cases, yes. In some
cases, no.
I am trying to convince some colleagues that our new backup network
would be better server by creating 2 2Gb trunks on our T2000 media
servers and connecting to 2 separate backup VLANS rather than 4 single
Gb connections to 4 backup VLANs.
I would assume it would be a bit easier to manage a smaller number of
trunked connections, but there's no inherent reason why one is faster
than another unless one of your clients would be limited by the
non-trunking setup.
The issue I have is that each T2000 will be driving at least one
StorageTek T10K and I think having trunks on the front end would mean
better network throughput to stream to these very fast tape drives.
Yes. But you can get the same or better performance if your clients are
properly balanced across the same non-trunked interfaces.
--
Darren Dunham ddunham@xxxxxxxx
Senior Technical Consultant TAOS http://www.taos.com/
Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area
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