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Cannot get over 100k iops from storage on 10g network on 4k random blocks

My setup description: storage system for vm storage: supermicro server, 1-socket Xeon E5-2620 v4, 82599ES-intel-based RA-Link 10GE network adapter, 8x pci-e 2.0, plugged in 8x pci-e 3.0 slot, debian ...
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Why is my data throughput only 1G of possible 10G if I setup an ethernet bridge?

My setup is a Windows 10 PC with 10G card (LR-LINK 6880BT) and a Synology DS1618+ NAS with 10G card (Synology E10G18-T1). Both 10G ports are connected directly to avoid buying a 10G switch. A) How ...
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Will adaptive load balancing (ALB) link aggregation causes high cpu usage in a NAS?

I have a NAS which has 2 10Gbe ports, and it provides Adaptive Load Balancing (ALB) link aggregation function. By checking Wikipedia, it seems that in ALB, the bonding driver needs to go through ...
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What would cause a single protocol to function at 1Gbps over a 10Gbps connection?

Our AFP server is now capping out at 1Gbps over our 10Gbps fiber connection. And only in the client<-server direction (client reading from it). This is a new occurrence. For years now the clients ...
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How much throughput increase to expect from link aggregation (LACP/802.3ad)?

I identified that data transfer within my cluster will be bottlenecked by the network interconnect (I'm saturating the dual SAS connection to my storage with sequential workloads), and I'm undecided ...
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Recommendations: configuring a 10GbE NAS stack for virtualisation storage

I'll try as hard as I can to word this so it is not considered a shopping list. We have been successfully running a dev/test ESXi environment for some time, with a couple of Dell PE2950III servers ...
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