Performance: 10Gbps - VLANs, and WiFi

[TomjNorthIdaho]

I’d like to set up my home lab with a few different VLANS like:

Trusted - Can go anywhere
Untrusted/Guest - Can only go out WAN
IoT - Can’t go out WAN

I currently have a CRS309 to act as a core switch, and an RB5009 that I use as my router, along with an old Cisco managed switch, which I’m going to replace with an MT device, I also have 3 cAPs/wAPs.

I have a file server my daughter uses for video editing, and having 10Gbps from her PC to the file server really helps her.

Looking at the test results for the CRS309, it seems that it’s nowhere near capable of supporting 10Gbps with firewall rules in effect.

What’s a good hardware set that will enable 10Gbps+ with VLANs to segment traffic?

IMO - if you have a PC/work-station talking to a file-server - to get the fastest possible I/O speed/transfer-rate , consider doing the following:

• Put the PC/work-station and the file-server on the same network ( same IP range ).
• Layer-2 switch instead of Layer-3 routing. ( L-3 routing and L-3 firewall configs both use CPU resources --&-- L-2 hardware switching does not use the CPU , you get full port network port speed between the PC/work-station to/from your file-server.

Also , depending on your server/work-station and file-server , consider some research into the following:

• SMB vs NFS vs iSCSI transfer rates ( which is he fastest )
• sync vs async writes configured in your file-server system
• if you use a ZFZ file system on your file-server , add some additional RAM so that you end up with more L2-ARC cache
  
  
  North Idaho Tom Jones