Re: 10-GigE for servers

[Alan Hannan <alan () routingloop com>]

The 10G cards from Neterion 
(http://www.neterion.com/products/xframeE.html)  perform extremely well.

Much of your potential limiting rate will be in the CPU and networking 
resources.

I agree with many of the other folks that etherchannel should work 
exceedingly well, but if you want to consolidate, there are many choices 
for single-system 10G ethernet cards.

-alan


Jason Shoemaker wrote:
> My company is looking for ways to improve throughput for data transfers
> between individual servers.  We’re exploring the creation of Etherchannels
> using multiple server NICs, but Etherchannel seems to have the limitation of
> not supporting per-packet load-balancing, therefore limiting traffic between
> two individual hosts to 1 Gig.
>
> In most of my research, I’ve seen 10-GigE used for traffic aggregation and
> for the “unified fabric” solution that Cisco and others are pushing.  I’m
> interested in knowing if any of you have attempted to implement 10-GigE at
> the host level to improve network throughput between individual servers and
> what your experience was in doing so.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Jason
>