Thursday, January 19, 2012

Setting up Link Aggregation in Solaris 11

Now that you have built that awesome ZFS box, your going to want to be able to access it as fast as possible right? So you do some research, find out that with a managed switch you can combine physical ports to increase your network speed. Link Aggregation does just this and Solaris has its own method. Now mind you, this is really only beneficial where you have multiple machines trying to access the same server at once. Unless you want to put a quad port nic in your desktop, but that's a whole other project :).

Here is a great guide!
http://blog.allanglesit.com/2011/03/solaris-11-network-configuration-advanced/

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