I currently have three servers at home: two Xenservers, and a Freenas box. With the promised I/O improvements in the next Xenserver release and Carp/Hast being added to Freenas I'm interested in virtualizing my storage and moving up from a multipathed Gigabit storage network to 10GbE.
To avoid using a switch I was thinking of adding a 2 port 10 GbE nic of some kind to each server, connecting in a ring, and using Open Vswitch to span/mirror the traffic to both ports.
Would this work?![]()
To avoid using a switch I was thinking of adding a 2 port 10 GbE nic of some kind to each server, connecting in a ring, and using Open Vswitch to span/mirror the traffic to both ports.
Would this work?