We are running a Win 2106 server in a VM that is hosting 8TB of engineering data. We had originally planned to lag 4x10gbe ports to the switch for load balancing only to find out that the IP hash algorithm only chooses one port to send data and does not use all 4 to make a 40gbe link (Right?)
I thought I read somewhere about making several 2 port lag groups and then it would send out on both of those groups at that point getting more performance but I am not sure how that would be done as I am only able to choose a single vswitch for each Virtual machine.
We have the essentials license, this is an smb customer with large data needs so I want to make the file transfer between the server and the workstations as fast as possible. The budget did allow for large amounts of storage AND a San so we are doing it as local storage.
At this time the lag group is setup and working and I have no way to know how it is utilizing those 4 ports.
I would like to know how to optimize this for the best possible performance. The server has 4x1gbe and 4x10gbe ports on it.
Thanks
Johnny