I recently purchased a Dell PowerConnect 2816 for my home lab and have been trying to read up on how best to configure the switch to support my iSCSI needs.
For my Hyper-V server I am adding four additional NICs via an Intel Quad Port Ethernet Server Adapter (I350T4), then connecting those ports via four CAT-5e cables into ports g9-g12. For my NAS I have a Synology DS1513+ which comes with four LAN ports with LAG Support connected to my PowerConnect 2816 via four CAT-5e cables into ports g13-g16. My hope is that I can configure the PowerConnect 2816 to support LAG to allow for increased network speed between the Hyper-V server and the Synology NAS.
From what I have read here the only steps I need to configure on the PowerConnect 2816 is to go into Switch | Link Aggregation | LAG Membership, configure g9-g12 with a 1, and then configure g13-g16 with a 2. I suppose I could create a dedicated VLAN for the Hyper-V server to NAS communication that includes only ports g9-g16 but I don't know how to do custom VLANs and I am not sure it's worth the effort.
Am I missing anything else on the PowerConnect 2816 configuration?
I am assuming that I will see an improved performance of bandwidth traffic between the Hyper-V server and NAS - is that correct?
Much appreciated.