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    Brocade ICX Series (cheap & powerful 10gbE/40gbE switching)

    I use the icx 7250-24p , Version 08.0.92T213 .. i have vonage for my phone service . i have been told my phone calls have been breaking up alot.. is there a way to setup QOS to fix this.. ( just trying to find out if this is the issue) my setup is this arris surfboard 8200 ( cable modem)...
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    Brocade ICX Series (cheap & powerful 10gbE/40gbE switching)

    major thank you!! , have you modified the fans at all? I can totally live with the 7250P stock , but if I could make it quieter and keep it cool ( the most important thing ) that would be nice.. ( the switch is on the shelf about six feet to my left at approximately ear height.. ) I was...
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    Dual Xeon-D

    yes that would suck... I'll dig in and find out.. yep I screwed up.. lol.. although I did find this https://www.innodisk.com/en/products/embedded-peripheral/display/EGPV-1101 https://www.wdlsystems.com/Innodisk-EGPV-1101-M.2-to-Single-HDMI-or-DVI-D-Module-0C-to-70C...
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    Poor performance 10GBE network.. why??

    thanks my NAS only has 4 HGST He8 (8tb) drives.. I really appreciate the help, it convinces me I'm not crazy and it is doable...
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    Dual Xeon-D

    now this is interesting... and only 40$ plus shipping. m.2 vga card... thats the one thing this board doesn't have.. Linus tech tips talks about the product.. Where I ordered it.. https://www.digikey.com/catalog/en/partgroup/sm750-series/83032 A pdf about it...
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    Brocade ICX Series (cheap & powerful 10gbE/40gbE switching)

    thank you so much , will this allow intervlan routing as well for example three vlans 10 20 and 30 all on different subnets 192.168.10.0 , 20.0, 30.0 etc.. will a device on 20.0 be able to ping 10.0 and 30.0 and vice versa i had thought i read something about having to have a ve interface...
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    Brocade ICX Series (cheap & powerful 10gbE/40gbE switching)

    I have an icx7250p 24 port. running 8.0.92 . I want to configure a trunk port to esxi 7.0. I know how to do this in the cisco world , but brocade is just a tiny bit different. I know how to configure the Esxi side ( or at least I think I do... minor lol....) the esxi 7 server would be...
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    Poor performance 10GBE network.. why??

    from what i have read "they" ( microsoft ) made changes in windows 10.. I don't know this to be true.. I just read it on several blogs. I would be happy to be wrong
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    Poor performance 10GBE network.. why??

    for my share i was created an SMB share on the synology and used regular windows map a drive to connect to it
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    Poor performance 10GBE network.. why??

    i have a couple of different NAS they all copy at the same speed ironically .. qnap ts 509 3gbps sata 5 2tb drives in raid 6 only has gig nics synology 918+ with 4 HGST/Sun 8TB 7.2K 3.5" SAS HUH728080AL5200 in it mode raid 5. has intel 10gb 520 dat1. i think it has something to do with...
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    Poor performance 10GBE network.. why??

    another thing copying large files to my nas is slow as well.. (86mb and less the gig) both have 10gb nics in them (details of entire config in first post). I think its windows issue.. i just use copy and paste.. is there a 3rd party copy utility that is multi-threaded ( not sure if that is the...
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    Poor performance 10GBE network.. why??

    ok, i tried it under an ubuntu vm 20.10 with iperf3 .. and its night and day difference... does windows really suck that bad..
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    Poor performance 10GBE network.. why??

    thanks for the reply , also when I try to copy to an smb share on my nas it copies at 86mb .. so it's really not the iperf i'm concerned about I want to optimize my network and i spent a fair amount of time and $$$ and this poor performance feels like a punch in the gut. any other good tools to...
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    Poor performance 10GBE network.. why??

    I got a new 10GBE switch from Santa.. ( ICX 7250P) in hopes it would speed up my VM performance (ESXi 7) and general large file copying.. well golly gee, was I shocked,, when I saw on how slow things were... I'm usually very smart... great with Wi-Fi ... I am at a loss here.. as to why I have...
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    best way to backup thin provisioned ESXi VM (actual size vs provisioned size)

    hello, I am a Vmware ESXi hobbyist. I know a little.. but this one question keeps perplexing me.. if i have a ESXi 7 VM provisioned to 100gb, but the actual space it uses is only like 5gb. ( the VM required the disk to be 100gb.. or it wouldn't install.. but this is just for lab use..) Is there...