What would be a sensible way to setup my Gigabit network? Will using both NICs improve performance at all?
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I work in a small digital agency, we do some post production, animation and some web dev.
I'm looking to improve slightly our networking setup as it is a little disorganised and not always as fast as it should be. In the long term we're looking at spending sensible money on faster centralised storage, fibre etc, but for another year or so I need to do something more affordable based around what we already have.
In brief, we have currently one Mac Pro Da Vinci grading workstation with attached highspeed storage RAID, and four Mac Pro edit machines for Premiere/After Effects. There are also various other machines and NAS devices, printers etc.
Currently everything is on one unmanaged Gigabit switch. Each edit machine has a 4 disk RAID set of SATA disks, two of which are in what used to be the SuperDrive bays before we took them out. There is an SSD for the boot drive, and then one empty slot for transfering data in and out on other disks etc. When a project is ready to grade it's moved over to the storage attached to the grading machine over the network. That all works fairly well for us at the moment.
However, with increasing frequency we're now working on projects with a few animators and editors at once, working over the network on the same files rendering them to one or other Mac Pro machine. I was wondering whether there is any way to improve our network architecture to make this a little faster (I know that ultimately we need a more expensive multi user centralised storage system of some sort, but in the short term..).
I was considering a couple of options-
1. Create a content only network on one NIC of each Mac Pro, into a dedicated switch, with jumbo frames turned on identically configured across all machines. Then on the second NIC join them into the 'everything else' network so they can access printers, the Internet, the slower NAS admin shares etc.
or
2. Configure a virtual ethernet device on each Mac aggregating the two NICs together (is that LACP?), taking both ethernet lines into the switch, and also using that switch for every other device (but connected in the normal manner).
Is either of those a sensible way to go? I understand that there isn't any speed increase over link aggregated NICs when only doing one transfer, but is there any performance benefit at all if the machine is getting different files from different machines simultaneously, or if two machines are rendering over the network to one?
I currently have one unmanaged Netgear JGS516 switch and one TP Link SG1024DE half-smart switch (has some useful functions but not what you'd expect from a more expensive model). Happy to buy a different switch is there's more management to be done, though don't want to spend a huge amount at this moment.
Any advice whatsoever gratefully received, I could be way off here
Thanks all.
Thanks Grant,
My knowledge of Jumbo Frames is limited.
A lot of what I know comes from here- http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwan/lanwan-features/30201-need-to-know-jumbo-f rames-in-small-networks?start=3
One suggestion in there is to separate Jumbo and non-Jumbo supporting devices so that there is no impact on speed.
I don't know anything about store-and-forward, I'll have to read up.
I'm the same about Full Duplex
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