So, I’m upgrading my current network from 1Gb to 10Gb. In doing so I’m installing a 2x10Gb NIC on my PC. My NAS already has 2 10Gb NICs. The new switch will have 8 10Gb NICs. I’m obviously going to see a huge boost in speed with this upgrade from 1 to 10 gig.
Are there any pitfalls in setting up SMB multichannel on my PC for backups specifically?
Will setting this up have any effect on the few apps and VMs running on the NAS (the NAS operation overall, not the transfer speed)?
yes, I just posted this: LACP SMB NAS Optimization
Ok, that’s a lot. LOL. So the speed increases can be had, just needs to be a detailed setup. Thank you for mentioning the separate subnets, my first instinct would have been to start with sequential IP addresses. The PC is windows 10, and I’m pretty sure there’s no problem with setting NICs up to use SMB Multichannel.
I’m a hobbyist, so I also may try the round robin bonding option just to toy around with this. My NAS is not enterprise, just a home storage vault and I toy around with apps and VMs on it as well.
yeah the subnet thing got me stuck for a while. I have a simple home network. I only added a 4x 2.5gbe switch (with 2x 10gbe ports) a couple of months ago, using a cheap AliExpress managed switch and still couldn’t get it to work. The folks on Discord told me that multichannel will not work without subnets. So I setup 192.168.100.x/25 …my main network is 192.168.100.2 to 192.168.100.126 …so I used 192.168.100.130 for the 2 NIC on TrueNAS and 192.168.100.131 for my Mac. It works great now.
Appreciate the info. I’ve been slowly upgrading everything at home, picked up a Ubiquiti Dream machine and one of their 10 Gig switches just for this NAS and backups. Still researching the PCI NICs for my PC but once I find that I’ll give this all a go.
