Is it possible to increase the network bandwidth between 2 servers on Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 ?
For example : Use 2 Gigabit NICs on each computer to have 2 Gigabits/sec between 2 machines ?
(I know it's possible to load balance traffic from a computer to a group of others base on MAC or IP address with modes such TLB, ALB, etc. that are using LACP (or not), but I've not found any solution to merge 2 NICs as only one for now ...).
Thanks in advance @ all !
No, teaming/etherchannel/LACP works by using the last 1/2/3 bits of the destination MAC to decide which link to send the traffic down, it doesn't 'round-robin' or similar so you could string as many 1Gbps NICs between two servers but regular ethernet traffic will only go down one of them. Of course some tiny management traffic will go down the others links but ultimately this won't give you a 2Gbps channel for server to server traffic - buy a couple of 10Gbps NICs instead.