I finally got my home network setup, and I'm having a bit of an issue with bandwidth. I flashed firmware on my router (wndr3700) to load OpenWRT, which gave me the ability to support VLANs, thus creating two separate subnets, going to two switches, one dedicated to SAN traffic, the other for everything else. Then I setup the C6100, and the P4300 SAN, loading ws2012 essentials on node one, and dedicated 2 of the 4 NICs (I added a 2port Intel NIC card) to the SAN traffic switch, and the other two going into the general traffic switch. I also created a NIC Bond on the P4300, and have that running into the SAN Switch. I setup LACP on both switches (Cisco SG200-26, and SG200-50), to enable NIC teaming.
Traffic flows from the P4300 G2 and the ws2012e node via iSCSI, and at a decent rate (135-150MB/s). The problem comes when I want to transfer data from the iSCSI share, to one of the other nodes of the C6100. The other nodes have a mapped drive to the ws2012e, as to avoid any kind of file lock or conflicting issues on data. IF I transfer a movie or file from the mapped drive to the HDD of the other node, network transfer speeds only hit around 45-50 MB/s, significantly slower. I can see the traffic is hitting both network teams on the ws2012e box, so I know its not going back to the router, and coming back down the pipe, but I didn't realize I would lose 50% of my bandwidth just hopping from one NIC team to the other on the same node.
Any advice?
Traffic flows from the P4300 G2 and the ws2012e node via iSCSI, and at a decent rate (135-150MB/s). The problem comes when I want to transfer data from the iSCSI share, to one of the other nodes of the C6100. The other nodes have a mapped drive to the ws2012e, as to avoid any kind of file lock or conflicting issues on data. IF I transfer a movie or file from the mapped drive to the HDD of the other node, network transfer speeds only hit around 45-50 MB/s, significantly slower. I can see the traffic is hitting both network teams on the ws2012e box, so I know its not going back to the router, and coming back down the pipe, but I didn't realize I would lose 50% of my bandwidth just hopping from one NIC team to the other on the same node.
Any advice?