Running a 10 Gbit network and making sure that you get the supposed bandwidth requires more effort than “plug and play”, which works for 1 Gbit. In this article I’ll describe my struggles and lessons learnt. Background In the first post in this series, I described the server I had chosen for my new FreeNAS …
In this three-part series, I describe a homelab infrastructure project where I build a 10Gbit NAS/SAN. The line between a NAS and a SAN is quite blurry these days, hence “SANAS”. Background I’m running 10 Gbit at home between my work computer and an old VMware server with a Mikrotik CRS305-1G-4S+IN doing the switching. Having …