[Astro] Astro core is now running Gigabit

[@stephens5093]

Do the MLC8000s require an Astro core to function?

[@anongator]

Nope, the MLC is standalone. Stuff like the MGC, DCG, GGM, and S2500 all require a core be that M, L, or K core

[@iwontlagback7236]

Is there any actual improvements to be seen from going to gigabit tho?

[@anongator]

Pushing security updates to The massive amount of windows VMs is the first obvious improvement I've run across so far.... Besides of course the fact that I can now watch 4K movies over the radio network to my console PC lmao Other than that, internally on the ESXi box I have each subnet limited to 100 megabit per second links to each host as I ran into some weirdness running a lot of the Linux based VMs at full gigabit. One things for sure, it definitely helps support a lot more remote desktop sessions, as a lot of the access to the consoles / network management clients is done over VMware Horizon and I was having issues where after 5 or 6 people logged in The link between the core and site 105 would stop allowing voice traffic due to the bandwidth being almost entirely taken up by remote desktop

[@iwontlagback7236]

@@anongator isn't there a way to tag all voice traffic with qos headers so that that doesn't happen ? Most switches support qos nowadays

[@anongator]

@iwontlagback7236 yep there 100% is. I just haven't bothered to set it up yet.......

[@iwontlagback7236]

@@anongator fair enough

[@anongator]

Yea it's been on my list of things to do. The gig upgrade helps a lot of non Astro stuff we run over the network so it needed to happen anyway