Not quite as dumb a question as it may first appear hopefully.
In our main computer room we have an ESX 3.5 setup (which will at some point soone be vSphere) where our VM's (including a file server) go into a vSwitch which has a pair of physical NICs going into our core switch, which is a Procurve 5406zl.
Our backup (as in the server which runs backups) server is a physical Dell PE1950 with a pair of Broadcom NICs and is also connected to a Procurve 5406zl.
Between the two procurves there's a 10gbps link.
The issue, and it's not a show stopper, is that AIUI regardless of any form of trunking/bonding that I do within the switch or ESX, the most that I can get in a conversation between two machines is restricted to 1gbps, all the teaming/trunking options just "aggregate" these links to make them easier to manage.
The only time this causes us an issue is during our backup window as it would be nice to be able to make use of that 10gbps link between the switches.
Is there anything I can do that would see more than 1gbps "host to host" when the file server is backed up to the backup server?
