On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Arun Tomar <tomar.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > I've a zfs box for storage and gigabit network. the max data transfer > speed that i could get is may be between 100-125 mbps need to check > that. > > I wanted to achieve close to 300mbps of data transfer speed. > > I remembered that if i could use link aggregation, it improves > reliability and performance. > > so my question is if supposed with 1 lan card if my transfer speed is > 100 mbps, then if i aggregate the links (2 gigabit lan cards aggregated) > then would it double to 200 mbps?
Yes. But not all NICs are supported and your switch would need to support aggregation as well. If you want to scale between many clients and server(s) you could use IPMP instead. cheers Binu > regds, > Arun. > > _______________________________________________ > belenix-discuss mailing list > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/belenix-discuss > http://groups.google.com/group/belenix-discuss > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
