Why the LAN didn't be evenly used while accessing through LACP/Trunking?

Problem/Symptom

Why the LAN didn't be evenly used while accessing through LACP/Trunking?

Solution

LACP, need load balancing I/O. If you are using a single server to connect to the SAN or NAS, you don't really need to set up LACP or Trunking, the path selection of LACP/Trunking will be decided by a complex formula.

Simply speaking, the LACP ports will be accessed according to the calculated results between the MAC address on the SAN or NAS and server, so if you have only a few clients/NICs, you don't really need to use LACP, that will confuse you. The suggested usage is to use separated IP addresses or using MPIO from the server side if iSCSI protocol will be used.

Apply to

All XCubeNAS or XCubeSAN series model.