HI Everyone,
I have two 2930F aruba switches that are connected to, 3 servers, a SAN, firewalls and netgear nas. I currently have every setup in vLAN's one for data, one for internal lan and on for scsi. Each server has two 4x1Gb network cards and each card goes to one of the two switches for redundany, for example;
Server 1, NIC 1, Port 1 - 4 -> switch1
Server 1, NIC 2, Port 1 - 4 -> switch2
On the servers i use Citrix Hypervisor (Xenserver), and the VM's connecting across 4 port BOND'd network ports, for example vLAN20 (Data network, 10.0.0.1/24) is set as an active/active (not lacp), two of those cables are NIC1 and two are NIC2. Just means that if a NIC fails the BOND still works and nothing goes down.
I've been seeing a lot of read/write wait times on our servers and am starting to think that the network is being overloaded during peak times, so was considering changing the bonds to LACP, i just want to check with everyone on a few things.
1. Can i do LACP mixed across two switches?
2. Will i retain my DR setup
3. Will it actually speed up my network or is there a potential bottle neck i'm missing.
I'm a reasonable tech, pretty good at most things, but networks aren't my strong point, so any advice would be welcomed. Feel free to message for future details.
Thanks everyone.
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Nathan Platt
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