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…
Tag: network performance
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…
Throttle Network Backup Traffic with NAKIVO Bandwidth Throttling
Network bandwidth is one of the more expensive aspects of today’s enterprise datacenter. Especially is that the case when talking about WAN bandwidth. WAN links are still relatively expensive, even…
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. The auto-tuning feature allows newer versions of Windows to…