Recently I got an ERPro-8, ES-48-500W, ES-16-XG & a few UAC-AP-PROs for my SOHO. I'm slowly migrating away from my legacy SOHO, which consisted of an ASUS RT-AC3200 & a couple EOL D-Link switches.
There are 2x 1Gbps SFP DACs between the ERPro-8 and ES-48-500W running as independent links. There are 2x 10Gbps SFP DACs between the ES-48-500W and ES-16-XG configure as a 20Gbps link aggregation.
I understand that while I can bridge the interfaces on the router, this forces the ERPro-8 to enable software-switching and would greatly limit the performance - so I haven't done this. I have no actual idea what the performance impact would be, but I'm guessing that it wouldn't be worth the gains.
Instead, I've gone about creating multiple VLAN interfaces on each of this trunks, trying to "manually balance" loads across them as carefully as possible. For the most part, this means that my user VLANs terminate on eth6 and my server & development VLANs terminate on eth7.
Can anyone offer any constructive criticism, insight, or suggestions on this approach and how I might do it better? Any knowledge specifically on the impact of aggregating those links on the ERPro-8 and then running it as a 2Gbps link aggregation between there and the ES-48-500W?
Thanks!