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That's a shame as I would like to see the differences in things like management of multiple access points and also clients moving seamlessly between them for offerings from Edimax, Ubiquiti, EnGenius, and ZyXEL. However I understand you can't review everything and that most people are probably...

I'm glad I found this thread and your post. I have a house wired with CAT5e to every room in the house but I still need WiFi. Given that I have a gigabit Ethernet backhaul, I think it makes sense to go with one of the solutions you mentioned above versus an Orbi or Portal solution which use a...

Dennis, What do you think of the Silverstone case versus the U-NAS case here: http://www.u-nas.com/product/nsc800.html I don't know if I am drawn to the U-NAS case because it reminds me of the QNAP TS-870 I have been drooling over for a while, if it is because it looks to have front to back...

Thanks again for your follow up. That sucks we can't share the NICs between the NAS and the VM environment. I really want 2 NIC teams to mirror my customer environment so I am not sure what I will do now.

Thanks for the response! So there is no way to share a NIC team between the main NAS and the VMs on it? I.E. You have to dedicate a NIC to the VMs? I ask because I was planning on providing a 2 x 1GB LACP team for the standard NAS communications and VMs, and then a 2 x 1GB team (I think LACP)...

Excellent write-up. I don't know if you have had a chance to play with around with the Virtualization Station much, but on the off chance you have I thought I would send my questions to you first since you seem very knowledgeable. #1. Is there any recommendation on whether to stick with...

That is AWESOME and will certainly help me when I build out my Hyper-V lab. Right now my large APC UPS is terminated into the USB port of my one Hyper-V server, and I was struggling with how leverage this across multiple systems. Thank you for sharing this!

I found a great write-up on multi-channel SMB v3 versus single channel, and all the variations on both: http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2012/06/28/the-basics-of-smb-multichannel-a-feature-of-windows-server-2012-and-smb-3-0.aspx I highly recommend this read as it will help explain...

These HP switches have Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (and regular Spanning Tree Protocol) support in addition to the Loop Prevention. Their explanation of the two technologies from their User Manual is as follows: Spanning Tree: The Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP, IEEE 802.1w) reduces the...

Agreed on investigating SMB3 in lieu of iSCSI. I have asked one of the guys at my work who is more focused on Windows and Hyper-V what the performance difference of using a single channel SMB3 connection to the QNAP unit versus MPIO iSCSI would be. Understood on the 4TB versus 3TB cost in...

Problem remediated. I got a second HP ProCurve 1810-24G v2 and replaced the Dell PowerConnect 2716. Now my set up looks like this: DLINK <--> HP <--> HP <--> NetGear I created an LACP "trunk" (HP's term for a Port Channel) between the two switches, one switch set as Active and the other set...

Fair question. My office/lab switch will eat ~18 ports with the 2 Hyper-V servers I want to build and the various other items in my lab. The "whole house" switch only needs about ~12 ports to connect everything else (wife's computer, PS3, my computer, etc...) so I do need 2 switches. I would...

Since the HP ProCurve 1810-24G V2 was only $209 on Newegg, I decided to pull the trigger and just get a second one to replace my aging Dell PowerConnect 2716. It's overkill for the number of ports I need to connect (~12) in my central LAN closet but... I am hopeful that the issues I am seeing...

I disabled Jumbo Frames and Flow Control on my HP switch with no change in the wacky ping response of my Dell switch. I was about to turn on Spanning Tree but I discovered the Dell PowerConnect 27XX series does not support it and I wasn't sure what turning it on the HP would do. Is there any...

The very first thing I did when I got the HP switch was check to make sure it and the existing Dell switch were both up to date before I tried to port channel them. :) The Dell switch is old and the firmware hasn't been updated since 2005 so I think that might be part of the problem (a switch...