MikroTik CCR1072-1G-8S+ Review – update on Part 3 – Throughput
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Breaking the 80 Gbps barrier!!!
The long wait for real-world 1072 performance numbers is almost over – the last two VMWARE server chassis we needed to push the full 80 Gpbs arrived in the StubArea51 lab today. Thanks to everyone who wrote in and commented on the first two reviews we did on the CCR-1072-1G-8S+. We initially began work on performance testing throughput for the CCR1072 in late July of this year, but had to order a lot of parts to get enough 10 Gig PCIe cards, SFP+ modules and fiber to be able to push 80 Gbps of traffic through this router.
Challenges
There have been a number of things that we have had to work through to get to 80 Gbps but we are very close. This will be detailed in the full review we plan to release next week but here are a few.
- VMWARE ESXi – LACP Hashing – Initially we built LACP channels between the ESXi hosts and the 1072 expecting to load the links by using multiple source and destination IPs but we ran into issues with traffic getting stuck on one side of the LACP channel and had to move to Continue reading