Alexei Rodriguez wrote:
+--- In a previous state of mind, Paul Norman pnorman@netapp.com wrote: | | Err, well in order to have a Cluster, you need to have a Cluster Interconnect | card and yes, you guessed it, it has to go into the unbridged slot - so there | really aren't any available for high speed NICs.
So, are you saying that with GbE and a f630, you cannot do failover?
No, you can do Cluster and GbE. You can have up to 4 GbE NICs in each F630. These can be a combination of active and stand-by. All I am saying is that you can't put them in the unbridged slots in the F630.
Failover to another interface would be a good feature to have (esp that all the 7xx have 10/100 built in). It is probably not simple to setup, but it would at least make it so I would not have to get dual GbE nics. Then again, if I am dropping an order of magnitude in speed, it may not be useable anyway.
Current product only allows failover to like interfaces. 100BaseT to 100BaseT or GbE to GbE or FDDI to FDDI. We do not have any plans to implement a GbE to 100BaseT failover, but I'll keep this in mind when we talk about future releases.
Alexei