Another person chiming in that it works and works well, this is what I've got configured for my back end storage network. Works like a charm.
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Leeds, Daniel Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 5:15 PM To: Maxwell Reid; David Lee Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: MEC (Multichassis EtherChannel)
we also utilize VSS/MEC in some of our cisco environments with LACP and this works fine on the netapp filers without any special configurations.
________________________________________ From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Maxwell Reid [max.reid@saikonetworks.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 12:11 PM To: David Lee Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: MEC (Multichassis EtherChannel)
This works fine, and is a pretty popular setup.. It's just like a normal etherchannel or LACP setup.. in fact, you likely won't have to touch the filer configuration at all.
~Max
On Feb 4, 2009, at 7:27 AM, David Lee wrote:
(I'm a little out of my depth here, so there may be some bits needing lateral interpretation...)
We already use bonded/trunked ethernet from the NetApp to a switch. That's fine.
We are planning a network upgrade, which gives us a chance to do this bonding/trunking to a logically linked pair of switches (Cisco 3750E) that operate as a single virtual switch, using "MEC". (The theory is that if a switch in the MEC-pair fails, the bond/trunk link continues working through the other switch, albeit with degraded throughput.)
Does anyone know whether MEC does/doesn't (will/won't) work? Is there anything MEC-specific that needs to be done in NetApp? Issues? (Other questions I should be asking? Etc.)
Pointers to existing information would probably be fine.
Thanks in advance.
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