topic Re: Pros and Cons of Upgrading 1GB NIC to 10GB in Network and Storage Protocols https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Pros-and-Cons-of-Upgrading-1GB-NIC-to-10GB/m-p/19659#M1751 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>A couple of other things to consider:</P><P></P><P>The 2240 has limited expansion, a single slot per controller. It's a choice of either a dual-port 10GbE or 8Gb FC mezzanine card.</P><P></P><P>You've 4 x 1Gb ethernet ports per head, bonding them together using LACP or similar might be a more cost effective solution.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 02 Oct 2013 09:37:06 GMT nigelg1965 2013-10-02T09:37:06Z Pros and Cons of Upgrading 1GB NIC to 10GB https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Pros-and-Cons-of-Upgrading-1GB-NIC-to-10GB/m-p/19641#M1748 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi All,</P><P></P><P>I am going to replace my 1GB NIC card with 10GB on my filer the over all idea is to get better performance for my NFS shares apart from this are there any limitations ??? implementing this.</P><P>Appreciate your Help <SPAN __jive_emoticon_name="happy" __jive_macro_name="emoticon" class="jive_macro jive_emote" src="https://community.netapp.com/5.0.1/images/emoticons/happy.gif"></SPAN> </P><P></P><P>Thanks,</P><P>Nayab</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:52:46 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Pros-and-Cons-of-Upgrading-1GB-NIC-to-10GB/m-p/19641#M1748 NAYABSK 2025-06-05T05:52:46Z Re: Pros and Cons of Upgrading 1GB NIC to 10GB https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Pros-and-Cons-of-Upgrading-1GB-NIC-to-10GB/m-p/19645#M1749 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>That's probably a good thing to do, but did you take a look at the overall performances of the filer ? Did you consider that you might not be saturating the 1G link(s?).</P><P>Basically, the filer with have more bandwidth to handle connexions from the 1GB clients, that's quite straightforward.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 02 Oct 2013 01:49:40 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Pros-and-Cons-of-Upgrading-1GB-NIC-to-10GB/m-p/19645#M1749 yannb 2013-10-02T01:49:40Z Re: Pros and Cons of Upgrading 1GB NIC to 10GB https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Pros-and-Cons-of-Upgrading-1GB-NIC-to-10GB/m-p/19654#M1750 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Yeah my 1GB was not able to handle the load causing performance issue thats the reason why im going to 10GB , So it will be straight forward by the way the model is FAS2240</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 02 Oct 2013 02:06:14 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Pros-and-Cons-of-Upgrading-1GB-NIC-to-10GB/m-p/19654#M1750 NAYABSK 2013-10-02T02:06:14Z Re: Pros and Cons of Upgrading 1GB NIC to 10GB https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Pros-and-Cons-of-Upgrading-1GB-NIC-to-10GB/m-p/19659#M1751 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>A couple of other things to consider:</P><P></P><P>The 2240 has limited expansion, a single slot per controller. It's a choice of either a dual-port 10GbE or 8Gb FC mezzanine card.</P><P></P><P>You've 4 x 1Gb ethernet ports per head, bonding them together using LACP or similar might be a more cost effective solution.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 02 Oct 2013 09:37:06 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Pros-and-Cons-of-Upgrading-1GB-NIC-to-10GB/m-p/19659#M1751 nigelg1965 2013-10-02T09:37:06Z Re: Pros and Cons of Upgrading 1GB NIC to 10GB https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Pros-and-Cons-of-Upgrading-1GB-NIC-to-10GB/m-p/19665#M1754 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks for your help <SPAN __jive_emoticon_name="happy" __jive_macro_name="emoticon" class="jive_macro jive_emote" src="https://community.netapp.com/5.0.1/images/emoticons/happy.gif"></SPAN> </P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 03 Oct 2013 01:21:06 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Pros-and-Cons-of-Upgrading-1GB-NIC-to-10GB/m-p/19665#M1754 NAYABSK 2013-10-03T01:21:06Z