FWIW, the documentation states that ToE with 10GbE is disabled when part of a VIF.  I originally thought this meant ‘etherchannel’ given that LACP wasn’t supported with 10GbE, but re-reading it appears to imply _any_ VIF, even single-mode (it wasn’t specified, so I have to assume any VIF).

 

This is less than stellar – what good is having an interface that is a SPOF?  Unless this documentation is incorrect, I have no choice but to remain without ToE L

 

From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Glenn Walker
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 11:05 PM
To: Myles Uyema
Cc: Jean-Noel Filippi; Milazzo Giacomo; toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: RE: 10 Gbps curiosity

 

Crap L

 

NetApp – when are you going to enable ToE and EtherChannel together?

 

This bombs my plans pretty quickly.  Maybe I can change it now before it’s too late.

 

From: Myles Uyema [mailto:mlists@uyema.net]
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:21 PM
To: Glenn Walker
Cc: Jean-Noel Filippi; Milazzo Giacomo; <toasters@mathworks.com>
Subject: Re: 10 Gbps curiosity

 

With TOE disabled we maxxed out a 6070 head at 375MBytes per second on 7.2.4. NFS only. Network domain pegged at 100%.

 

With TOE enabled on 7.3RC1 we saw 815MBytes per second. 60% network domain.

 

PCI-X single port TOE, 100 clients reading sequentially.

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On May 21, 2008, at 2:58 PM, "Glenn Walker" <ggwalker@mindspring.com> wrote:

We’re deploying FAS6070s with 2 x Active\ 2 x Passive 10GbE Single Mode, multi-level VIFs (Etherchannel) per head for VMWare over NFS.  Looks good so far, so I’ll let the group know how this turns out…

 

FWIW, I have the same concerns over CPU, but I’m hedging my bets that the FAS6070s are such beasts that they won’t really care.

 

From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Jean-Noel Filippi
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 2:18 PM
To: Milazzo Giacomo; toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: RE: 10 Gbps curiosity

 

We use 2 x FAS6080 with redundant 10GE in a VIF single mode. They are connected to Force10 C300 switches.

We generated up to 4Gbit of CIFS traffic and everything works well.

 

 

From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Milazzo Giacomo
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 8:11 AM
To: toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: 10 Gbps curiosity

 

Hi all

 

Reading on superior results reached in certaing environment (NetApp NFS with Oracle ad example) I’m looking for some direct experience and informations about performances, benchmarks, infrastructure used - I mean also exactly model and brand of switches J - and so on. So that, more on the relatively new world of 10 Gbps networks.

 

Does anyone direct experience? Are you using it in your site?

Thanks in advance