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four machines are cloned, it is expected to take four times as long which is 240 minutes. However, by
doing it over multiple IP addresses 38% of the time was saved. Similarly, for cloning eight machines,
31% of the expected time was saved. This is because of the additional throughput achieved by load
balancing NFS traffic over multiple physical NICs when multiple NAS service IP addresses are in use.
Figure 19 Time saved during cloning operation by using multiple NAS service IP addresses and physical NICs
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