Re: HS San

[Chris Blair] "So if you take two 1GB ethernet cards and aggregate them, they operate as if they're one 2GB card. Link 4 cards and you effectively double the bandwidth capability to 4GB."

That's actually not entirely true. The max bandwidth is still 1gbps per session regardless of how many ports you trunk. On the server end it's great because each client has an equal portion of the combined bandwidth (up to 1gb). But no single client can transfer a single stream faster than 1gb, even if you trunk 2 or 4 ports on the client end.

An alternative to Link Aggregation is to simply assign each port on the server it's own subnet. So each client is masked off from one another. This only works if you have equal or less clients than you have ports on the server.

Sean