Hi all,
I've got a couple of questions on setting up and using vifs between two filers to help speed up data migration from the old F520 to a new F740.
They're configed like this:
F520 F740 OnTap: 5.2.1 OnTap: 5.3.6p2 RAM: 256Mb RAM: 512Mb Quad Ethernet Quad Ethernet Gigabit Ethernet
I've networked the two systems together using three ports on each Quad Ethernet board, but due to distance limitations, I'm going through three seperate hubs. So the two filers are basically hooked up back-to-back over a private network.
I did the various vif commands, and they are setup correctly, and they are passing traffic properly, but just over one of the three links. I know I need to upgrade the F520 to match OnTap versions, and will do so next weekend when I have some down time, but I wanted to play around with ndmpcopy beforehand to see how the performance will be.
Doing a test this morning, I managed to crash the new F740 with a PCI Parity error while doing another test of ndmpcopy. Whee!
My questions:
- will vifs work properly across direct connections between filers?
- Has anyone used a Lucent Cajun P220 switch to implement a VIF? I could easily run a fiber link from the F740 to a Cajun which would then run the three ethernet links.
And while I work for Lucent, the Cajun wasn't made in our division and I haven't used it.
Thanks, John John Stoffel - Senior Unix Systems Administrator - Lucent Technologies stoffel@lucent.com - http://www.lucent.com - 978-952-7548 john.stoffel@ascend.com - http://www.ascend.com