Load balancing on older hardware for small business

Hey Spiceheads!Im sure I am way over my head here but I like to swim so its all good. I am fairly new to IT and am enjoying the ride, so this one should be fun too.In my office we have 8 servers, 10 USB hard drives for.... stuff. I didnt set it up. So we have virtually no redundancy.We have one good server and 7 pretty old ones, so I had a thought to put in a SAN or NAS and Load balance all of the old servers together. Then we would have plenty of storage/ backups (Raid 6 probably or whatever the SAN does) and we could keep the old servers and use them as they would be needed.My system requirements are as follows:2 Windows VMs
1-2 SQL servers
2-Linux Servers one of which is high performance
Backups.I know its a small list but if there is an economical way to do this I think we would have a very robust system, we do web development and are...
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I'm not sure if this help you, but it's not that easy to join two networks together. If you take the reason why, it's because of different IP addresses. If you are downloading something from the Internet you would have to divide the data into two different IP addresses = two different computers. Thing you can do is auto-balance use of wlan0 and wlan1 according to the usage. So, script will forward for first user packets on wlan0 and if somebody else connects he will get forwarded to wlan1. If there are more people you need to divide network bandwidth in different way, but I don't see way how to get 20Mbps with a single computer on a single TCP connection working as normal. It's possible to ask server for portion of data with wlan0 and then for the second portion on wlan1, but it may be complicated for data downloads with server sessions attached to the IP.
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