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Thanks for the response - yes the ones in question have 10GbE NICs. I should have lifted the veil a little higher. It's all a complex (to me) jigsaw - we are connecting together 3 x Dell R730's, a stack of 3 x Isilon X210's (with a Mellanox IS4022 switch) and a rack mounted QNAP plus the...

Greetings from sunny Brisbane Before I start let me say that despite working hand-on in the IT industry for over 40 years, my experience of networking previously has been limited to plugging RJ45 cables into dumb unmanaged switches. If I sound like a total noob it's because, well, I am. Having...