Hi everyone<BR><BR>Quick one really. I'm setting up a NAS box which will be directly connected via gigabit to a VMWare ESXi host machine. The VMs will be accessing the storage from that NAS box using ...

I am looking at bumping up the available bandwidth in a couple of the wiring closets. Right now they have 1Gbps and I'd like to do 2Gbps. I also want it to failover to one pair if the link is severed ...

Configuring a datacenter network is extremely complicated. If you’re not a network engineer it’s real easy to get yourself into trouble by slapping things together (note: I am not a network engineer).

At least until the standards are done for 40G and 100G Ethernet, link aggregation will remain the preferred high-speed uplink method. Link aggregation, described in IEEE standard 802.3ad, binds ...

It may be hard to believe, but 1G bit/sec is just not enough bandwidth for many network connections between LAN switches and from switches to high-demand network servers. Along with the ...

We are having a storage area network installed in a few days. The vendor who is installing the equipment has requested that we configure the switch being used for what they are calling link ...

Gigabit serial data links have become commonplace in many of today's electronic applications. These serial data links (also called serial links) allow system developers and designers to add features ...