Anybody out there have an F740 cluster w/ 18GB drives running in production? If so, I have a couple of questions I'm hoping you can answer:
1) Have any problems loosing routes over a virtual interface? If you physically disconect all the links in a trunk it drops all routes which use that interface, even static routes w/ routed off.
2) Have you been able to takeover/giveback a virtual interface? Treating it like a "normal" interface doesn't seem to work and I haven't been able to find any special instructions for this.
3) Any unexplained panics? We had one running 5.2.1 in takeover mode -- didn't even drop core. Another attributed to a bad disk while we were running 5.2.1P1. We're now at 5.2.1P2 after several ndmpd hangs (didn't bring down the filer), seems to be stable.
4) How many disk failures did you see within the first 6 months of getting the filer? (looks like we're on 2 of 24 in 3 months and we haven't even used them all yet).
5) Do you have the name and address of the person in charge of the hold muzac for the support line? The 5 minute loop of garbage is really ramping up my aggression level and I'd prefer to take it out on the person responsible.
I have a couple of open calls with support I'm waiting for status on, but I'm not calling them because if I have to listen to that damned muzac tape loop around one more time I'm going to kill someone. Since my office-mate is closest it would probably be him... and that would just leave me more work to do. (Moving bodies, digging holes, and handling all his projects...)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
jason
--- Jason D. Kelleher kelleher@susq.com Susquehanna Partners, G.P. 610.617.2721 (voice) 401 City Line Ave, Suite 220 610.617.2916 (fax) Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004-1122
2) Have you been able to takeover/giveback a virtual interface? Treating it like a "normal" interface doesn't seem to work and I haven't been able to find any special instructions for this.
Virtual interface (vif, Etherchannel, link aggregation, your-name-here) takeover/giveback is not supported in 5.2.x
The 5.3 release supports virtual interface takeover/giveback.
/sas
"Jason D. Kelleher" wrote:
Anybody out there have an F740 cluster w/ 18GB drives running in production? If so, I have a couple of questions I'm hoping you can answer: 1) Have any problems loosing routes over a virtual interface? If you physically disconect all the links in a trunk it drops all routes which use that interface, even static routes w/ routed off.
This sounds like a bug that has been fixed. There is a patch available for 5.2.1.
On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Jason D. Kelleher wrote:
1) Have any problems loosing routes over a virtual interface? If you physically disconect all the links in a trunk it drops all routes which use that interface, even static routes w/ routed off.
I understand that this is the correct behavior of many systems, especially UN*X systems.
3) Any unexplained panics? We had one running 5.2.1 in takeover mode -- didn't even drop core. Another attributed to a bad disk while we were running 5.2.1P1. We're now at 5.2.1P2 after several ndmpd hangs (didn't bring down the filer), seems to be stable.
I have a 630 with 9GBs with 5.2.1P1 and an unexplained panic. I think it's hardware related at this point. I had one phantom reboot on its partner with the same configuration, but after that it has been stable like a rock. The 740 and the 630 aren't that far apart technologically, as I understand, and they do run the same software.
5) Do you have the name and address of the person in charge of the hold muzac for the support line? The 5 minute loop of garbage is really ramping up my aggression level and I'd prefer to take it out on the person responsible.
I mentioned that in a post and a letter just last week. Guys (NetApp), I wasn't kidding. It's too short and the World of the Worlds heavy alternative theme just doesn't cut it. Nevermind that we shouldn't be hearing the loop to completion.
I have a couple of open calls with support I'm waiting for status on, but I'm not calling them because if I have to listen to that damned muzac tape loop around one more time I'm going to kill someone.
I hear that music in my mind sometimes long after I get off the line. I begin to suspect that the muzak is audibly offensive purposely.
Tom
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