How can I increase the bandwidth to my FreeNAS machine without buying $500 10GB NICs? Moving to 10GB NICs seemed to be the answer found in a couple of other threads, but that can't be the only solution, right?
I'm running FreeNAS 9.1.1 in ESXI 5.5 (the proper way, with server-grade Xeon/Supermicro hardware and have a LSI 2308 passed through and dedicated to FreeNAS).
I have a two port gigabit trunk setup on a level 2 switch and both of the physical Intel gigabit adapters on the ESXI server are combined into a load balancing trunk using "route based IP hash". My issue is getting something equivalent to a "trunk" to carry over into FreeNAS to increase the available FreeNAS bandwidth. The incoming side of the vSwitch in ESXI is trunked and working great. However, FreeNAS only appear to be able to use one NIC (which maxes out at about 100MB/s). I've tried adding another NIC in FreeNAS to the vSwitch, but can't seem to figure out a way to do "route based IP hash" in FreeNAS.
On my Windows 7 machine, I can setup a "Team" with two Intel NICs and can push out about 210MB/s to another "teamed" or trunked host.
Can FreeNAS be configured in a similar way, so that it can at least use two NICs simultaneously to increase its available bandwidth?
I'm running FreeNAS 9.1.1 in ESXI 5.5 (the proper way, with server-grade Xeon/Supermicro hardware and have a LSI 2308 passed through and dedicated to FreeNAS).
I have a two port gigabit trunk setup on a level 2 switch and both of the physical Intel gigabit adapters on the ESXI server are combined into a load balancing trunk using "route based IP hash". My issue is getting something equivalent to a "trunk" to carry over into FreeNAS to increase the available FreeNAS bandwidth. The incoming side of the vSwitch in ESXI is trunked and working great. However, FreeNAS only appear to be able to use one NIC (which maxes out at about 100MB/s). I've tried adding another NIC in FreeNAS to the vSwitch, but can't seem to figure out a way to do "route based IP hash" in FreeNAS.
On my Windows 7 machine, I can setup a "Team" with two Intel NICs and can push out about 210MB/s to another "teamed" or trunked host.
Can FreeNAS be configured in a similar way, so that it can at least use two NICs simultaneously to increase its available bandwidth?