I meant using vlans to separate your management traffic from your production data traffic. Most filers before the 3000 had one on board interface. Even on the 980 it had a 100mb interface. With the 3000's and the 6000's there are now 4 or 6 on board 1g interfaces that can be used for either management or data throughput.
If you workload is dispersed enough that you need 4 full 1g interfaces for just production traffic, or your security need to be segmented that management traffic can't touch production traffic, then perhaps a separate gig card is required.
-Blake
On 1/3/07, Linux Admin sysadmin.linux@gmail.com wrote:
Blake, Thanks! So which one is managment then? I see dedicated managemnet iterface on all filers but 3020. Or do you manage over the data IP? Thanks
On 1/3/07, Blake Golliher thelastman@gmail.com wrote:
You can use vlan tagging on it that final multi mode trunk vlan. There should be 3 slots available for expansion cards if you need a dedicated interface for managment. Depending on how much storage is attached to this config, you should be able to use one of those slots for a network card.
-Blake
On 1/3/07, Linux Admin sysadmin.linux@gmail.com wrote:
Folks, Not familiar with 3020 series at all. I see 4 nics (e0a, e0b, e0c,e0d)
on
the back of each head. Does it mean I have sacrifice one to be management and only 3 are
available
as data? Have NetApp change things? Or can I used all 4 in single/multi vips? I was going to do e0a and e0c in single A, e0b and and e0d in single B,
and
Multi VIP C on top of Sinlge A and Single B. Not sure what to do about management. Thanks for help