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After years in enterprise storage with endless performance testing: there's almost no point. Modern CPUs and NICs barely benefit. In 2005 when we had dual-core CPUs that were constantly buried and NICs with 0 offload, it made a ton of sense - heck we had dedicated iSCSI HBAs (QLA4010 represent!).

That being said, if you've got three servers and two VLANs with no worries about the jumbos ever escaping: I guess? But if you see even a 5% performance increase, I'll be shocked. On the flip side you're one misconfiguration away from endless troubleshooting if those jumbos escape.

Also *jumbo frames.



That's great feedback. If it doesn't help, don't do it.




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