[BBLISA] Faster than 1G Ether ... ESX to ZFS

[Tim Winter]

What about bonding multiple 1G interfaces?


On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Edward Ned Harvey <bblisa3 at nedharvey.com>wrote:

> Since combining ZFS storage backend, via nfs or iscsi, with ESXi heads, I’m
> in love.  But for one thing.  The interconnect between the head & storage.
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> 1G Ether is so cheap, but not as fast as desired.  10G ether is fast
> enough, but it’s overkill and why is it so bloody expensive?  Why is there
> nothing in between?  Is there something in between?  Is there a better
> option?  I mean … sata is cheap, and it’s 3g or 6g, but it’s not suitable
> for this purpose.  But the point remains, there isn’t a fundamental
> limitation that **requires** 10G to be expensive, or **requires** a leap
> directly from 1G to 10G.  I would very much like to find a solution which is
> a good fit… to attach ZFS storage to vmware.
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> Any suggestions?
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