My Google-Fu on this topic seems to be failing to produce a workable solution (if one exists). I have about 25TB of data I need to move as quickly as possible between two HP servers (Windows 2008 R2 and 2012 R2). 10G isn't a viable option right now.
Server 1 - HP DL360 G6, NC364T Quad-port GigE
Server 2 - HP DL360 G7, NC382i (onboard) Quad-port GigE
Switch - Cisco Catalyst 4948
I started out trying LACP but quickly realized the limitations and moved onto other methods. I tried to emulate the setup from this article (didn't see how it would help) -- but couldn't get traffic through more than one interface at a time.
Moved onto experimenting with round-robin which did distribute but the packet out-of-order nuked performance. I also tried src-dst-port hashing with 4 concurrent FTP streams but for some reason only two interfaces were utilized at 50%. I also think I'm working against the convention differences between the HP configuration utility on 2008 R2 and the integrated methods on 2012.
SMB 3.0 would be nice except only one server is 2012. Also been trying with multiple iPerf instances to try and get more distribution but that showed a similar result as FTP.
I think I'm looking for the right combination of teaming/switch configuration and a multi-stream transfer protocol I can use within Windows. Any suggestions are welcome, thanks.
Server 1 - HP DL360 G6, NC364T Quad-port GigE
Server 2 - HP DL360 G7, NC382i (onboard) Quad-port GigE
Switch - Cisco Catalyst 4948
I started out trying LACP but quickly realized the limitations and moved onto other methods. I tried to emulate the setup from this article (didn't see how it would help) -- but couldn't get traffic through more than one interface at a time.
Moved onto experimenting with round-robin which did distribute but the packet out-of-order nuked performance. I also tried src-dst-port hashing with 4 concurrent FTP streams but for some reason only two interfaces were utilized at 50%. I also think I'm working against the convention differences between the HP configuration utility on 2008 R2 and the integrated methods on 2012.
SMB 3.0 would be nice except only one server is 2012. Also been trying with multiple iPerf instances to try and get more distribution but that showed a similar result as FTP.
I think I'm looking for the right combination of teaming/switch configuration and a multi-stream transfer protocol I can use within Windows. Any suggestions are welcome, thanks.