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Nic teaming, load balancing and Fail-over?
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 5:09 pm
by Dana2011
We have a lab with physical custom servers Noroco 4220 case with 20 bays, ASUS server motherboard with dual Intel Xeon CPU sockets, 18 DIMMS and 48 GB of RAM DDR3, Adaptec RAID Controller 31605,15 Hitachi HDD, Intel E1G44ETBLK Gigabit ET Quad Port Server Adapter and Dell PowerConnect 2848 Managed Switch. We want to install Starwind on top of Server 2008 in ESXi host and we want to have a best performance for networking.
1. What do you recommend for Nic teaming, load balancing and Fail-over?
2. Which is a best solution to put OS in RAID or on separate SSD just for OS and Starwind?
Thanks!
Re: Nic teaming, load balancing and Fail-over?
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 9:51 pm
by anton (staff)
1) Teaming has tendency not to work as expected. So now yes, try NIC teaming checking tunnel performance for TCP first. Upcoming versions of StarWind will have multiple routing paths and Round-Robin load balancing supported so NO teaming is going to work faster and more reliable. V5.7 I guess...
2) Put OS boot on cheap RAID. OS boot is not expected to happen often. Keep SSD for de-duplication metadata level 2 cache (level 1 is RAM).
Re: Nic teaming, load balancing and Fail-over?
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 11:32 pm
by Dana2011
Thank you and do you know when 5.7 version is coming up ?
Regards,
Re: Nic teaming, load balancing and Fail-over?
Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 9:37 am
by Max (staff)
Hi, as far as I've heard 5.7 will be released by the end of March.
Re: Nic teaming, load balancing and Fail-over?
Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 11:29 pm
by Dana2011
Thanks !
Re: Nic teaming, load balancing and Fail-over?
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 12:24 pm
by anton (staff)
You're welcomed to get hands over pre-release version (when we'll have one). If you want please drop us a message to
support@starwindsoftware.com referencing you'd like to take part in Beta program and we'll be happy to help
Thank you!