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I have two HP DL360 server in a vmware environment. I have a synology unit that will accept nic bonding/link aggregation (it has two nics on it). I also have two dedicated nics on both esx hosts just for the storage access (network). On the esx server vmnic4 and 5 are on both hosts are on vlan 30. The synology unit is also on vlan 30. If I do link aggregation on the synology side, and on the vmware side will I benefit any in throughput? Or should I use the nics for the vm network. The synology unit is presenting nfs storage, and not iscsi.
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I have two HP DL360 server in a vmware environment. I have a synology unit that will accept nic bonding/link aggregation (it has two nics on it). I also have two dedicated nics on both esx hosts just for the storage access (network). On the esx server vmnic4 and 5 are on both hosts are on vlan 30. The synology unit is also on vlan 30. If I do link aggregation on the synology side, and on the vmware side will I benefit any in throughput? Or should I use the nics for the vm network. The synology unit is presenting nfs storage, and not iscsi.

vmware and nfs question

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

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Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

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