Deploying Suse Linux Enterprise Server
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Installing Suse Linux Enterprise Server
Network Configuration
When configuring networking with Suse Linux Enterprise Server, most of the options are pretty straight forward and for most configurations you should be able to easily configure your network adapters. However, there are two things I do want to cover: The physical network hardware to use in a network, and the process of Network Card Bonding (using 2 or more NICs as one).
Network Hardware
This problem really has nothing to do with deploying Suse Linux Enterprise Server, but I have found this problem repeatedly when working on networks that I have never seen before. The worst part of this problem is that nearly every network that I have seen having this problem already has the hardware readily available to optimize their network - to fix it simply takes a few seconds.
The problem I am talking about is the incorrect usage of Gigabit ports on network switches. Currently, most people apparently reserve these ports for their own machines, or someone "higher up in the food chain" of the company. The problem with this is that the switches themselves are becoming the bottlenecks of network throughput, as shown in the following charts. The difference between these two performance results is simply changing the client switches to be connected to the server switch (already a gigabit switch) through it's gigabit port.
Network Throughput and Response Time between Different Speed Switches
So if you are concerned with the performance of you network, the easiest, most cost effective solution is to simply purchase a gigabit switch to connect all of your servers to, then connect all of the other switches to the gigabit switch through their gigabit port (if there is one available). This simple solution can easily speed up most networks regardless of it's size.
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