How many of you are testing or using gigabit on the filer? I have some friends that have been doing it, but only 66% success.
The 1 person using the Alteon (or whatever the NetApp reccomended one is) got good results; but the density is lacking.
Another person is using a Foundry switch between a filer (630) and a DEC alphastation. He is getting decent results. But the Foundry equipment is also less than dense (and will be expensive when they put the chassis systems out).
Finally, another friend is using a Prominet Cajun switch (good density, excellent price) but cannot get the filer to "ring up" on the switch. Looks like it might be a Prominet issue.
Has anyone tried other equipment? Cisco (beta tesing)? YAGO?
Success stories? Horror stories?
I need to go from FDDI to something faster (and less expensive). ATM is not it.. :)
My plan is to put the filers on gigabit, as well as our backups machine and the heavy use clients (servers). The rest of the servers can use switched 100mbit.
Thanks.
Alexei