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 ...

Link aggregation is something that's "nice to have" when it comes to a NAS, but it's something most people arguably don't need. It makes use of multiple LAN ports in order to increase bandwidth, ...

I see it as the lowest form of link aggregation, billed as a panacea for the masses. We deployed connection teaming in 2007, using Wingate, to round-robin twelve 384Kbit DSL connections using stacks ...

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 ...