Comments on: Weekly Open Ended Question #4 http://blog.alwaysthenetwork.com/open-ended-questions/weekly-open-ended-question-4/ Just another Cisco blog Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:37:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Adam K-F http://blog.alwaysthenetwork.com/open-ended-questions/weekly-open-ended-question-4/comment-page-1/#comment-518 Adam K-F Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:23:46 +0000 http://blog.alwaysthenetwork.com/?p=733#comment-518 802.3ad is the IEEE standard defining Link Aggregation It covers combining multiple physical network links into a single logical network link combining the bandwidth of all the physical links, increasing total bandwidth and incorporating a level of redundancy, should a single link go down or require maintenance. Haha, finally I know the answer to one of your questions :) I have been playing around with 802.3ad and the Cisco proprietary EtherChannel with my VMware ESXi farm and my OpenFiler SAN. Great blog Colby, always enjoy reading. 802.3ad is the IEEE standard defining Link Aggregation

It covers combining multiple physical network links into a single logical network link combining the bandwidth of all the physical links, increasing total bandwidth and incorporating a level of redundancy, should a single link go down or require maintenance.

Haha, finally I know the answer to one of your questions :) I have been playing around with 802.3ad and the Cisco proprietary EtherChannel with my VMware ESXi farm and my OpenFiler SAN. Great blog Colby, always enjoy reading.

]]> By: Noah http://blog.alwaysthenetwork.com/open-ended-questions/weekly-open-ended-question-4/comment-page-1/#comment-517 Noah Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:06:59 +0000 http://blog.alwaysthenetwork.com/?p=733#comment-517 LACP - For etherchannel. LACP – For etherchannel.

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