network performance
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Networking
10 gig switch vs 2.5 gig vs 1 gig: Which do you need?
There are so many choices among network switches these days. Especially in the home lab or consumer market there are now great choices for 10 gig, 2.5 gig, and 1 gig. Which do you need to choose and what use…
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vSAN
Configure Network I/O Control NIOC with vSAN vSphere Distributed Switch
Recently, in the home lab, I wanted to move to converged networking with vSphere Distributed Switch on my “production” vSAN cluster running my various home lab resources (nested, etc). Prior to this, I was running two vSphere Standard Switches on…
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Backup Software
Throttle Network Backup Traffic with NAKIVO Bandwidth Throttling
Network bandwidth is one of the more expensive aspects of today’s enterprise datacenter.ย Especially is that the case when talking about WAN bandwidth.ย WAN links are still relatively expensive, even with prices of bandwidth coming down in the last couple…
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Networking
TCP Auto-tuning slow network performance
Starting with Windows Vista, there were improvements made to the network stack including a little known feature called TCP Window Auto-tuning. ย The auto-tuning feature allows newer versions of Windows to be able to adjust the RWIN value automatically on the…