All,
I am needing to re-order some of the virtual interfaces on an HA pair of 3170s running OnTap 7.3.7. The current configuration has:
2 x 1 Gbe interfaces in an LACP 'vif_r0' 2 x 1 Gbe interfaces in an LACP 'vif_r1'
1 second-level vif, vif_rsec, comprised of vif_r0 and vif_r1.
What I want to (eventually) get to is:
4 x 1 Gbe interfaces in an LACP vif_r0
And I don't want to take a downtime to do it. Unfortunately, with an HA pair, this isn't going to be possible (I don't think…).Once a failover and configuration change is made, the takeover partner doesn't have a "correct" interface to give back to, since it's "partner" interface name has changed. So what I'm proposing is:
Leave the second-level vif alone. Remove the physical interfaces from vif_r1 and put them in vif_r0.
The question I have is: can I fully de-populate a vif of physical interfaces? Will it stick on the last one? I don't have anywhere to test this, so I'm hoping someone with some spare capacity can either test it and let me know if it will work.
Thanks in advance,
-=Tom Nail