Folks, Not familiar with 3020 series at all. I see 4 nics (e0a, e0b, e0c,e0d) on the back of each head. Does it mean I have sacrifice one to be management and only 3 are available as data? Have NetApp change things? Or can I used all 4 in single/multi vips? I was going to do e0a and e0c in single A, e0b and and e0d in single B, and Multi VIP C on top of Sinlge A and Single B. Not sure what to do about management. Thanks for help
You can use vlan tagging on it that final multi mode trunk vlan. There should be 3 slots available for expansion cards if you need a dedicated interface for managment. Depending on how much storage is attached to this config, you should be able to use one of those slots for a network card.
-Blake
On 1/3/07, Linux Admin sysadmin.linux@gmail.com wrote:
Folks, Not familiar with 3020 series at all. I see 4 nics (e0a, e0b, e0c,e0d) on the back of each head. Does it mean I have sacrifice one to be management and only 3 are available as data? Have NetApp change things? Or can I used all 4 in single/multi vips? I was going to do e0a and e0c in single A, e0b and and e0d in single B, and Multi VIP C on top of Sinlge A and Single B. Not sure what to do about management. Thanks for help
Blake, Thanks! So which one is managment then? I see dedicated managemnet iterface on all filers but 3020. Or do you manage over the data IP? Thanks
On 1/3/07, Blake Golliher thelastman@gmail.com wrote:
You can use vlan tagging on it that final multi mode trunk vlan. There should be 3 slots available for expansion cards if you need a dedicated interface for managment. Depending on how much storage is attached to this config, you should be able to use one of those slots for a network card.
-Blake
On 1/3/07, Linux Admin sysadmin.linux@gmail.com wrote:
Folks, Not familiar with 3020 series at all. I see 4 nics (e0a, e0b, e0c,e0d)
on
the back of each head. Does it mean I have sacrifice one to be management and only 3 are
available
as data? Have NetApp change things? Or can I used all 4 in single/multi vips? I was going to do e0a and e0c in single A, e0b and and e0d in single B,
and
Multi VIP C on top of Sinlge A and Single B. Not sure what to do about management. Thanks for help
I meant using vlans to separate your management traffic from your production data traffic. Most filers before the 3000 had one on board interface. Even on the 980 it had a 100mb interface. With the 3000's and the 6000's there are now 4 or 6 on board 1g interfaces that can be used for either management or data throughput.
If you workload is dispersed enough that you need 4 full 1g interfaces for just production traffic, or your security need to be segmented that management traffic can't touch production traffic, then perhaps a separate gig card is required.
-Blake
On 1/3/07, Linux Admin sysadmin.linux@gmail.com wrote:
Blake, Thanks! So which one is managment then? I see dedicated managemnet iterface on all filers but 3020. Or do you manage over the data IP? Thanks
On 1/3/07, Blake Golliher thelastman@gmail.com wrote:
You can use vlan tagging on it that final multi mode trunk vlan. There should be 3 slots available for expansion cards if you need a dedicated interface for managment. Depending on how much storage is attached to this config, you should be able to use one of those slots for a network card.
-Blake
On 1/3/07, Linux Admin sysadmin.linux@gmail.com wrote:
Folks, Not familiar with 3020 series at all. I see 4 nics (e0a, e0b, e0c,e0d)
on
the back of each head. Does it mean I have sacrifice one to be management and only 3 are
available
as data? Have NetApp change things? Or can I used all 4 in single/multi vips? I was going to do e0a and e0c in single A, e0b and and e0d in single B,
and
Multi VIP C on top of Sinlge A and Single B. Not sure what to do about management. Thanks for help
On 04/01/2007, at 10:01 AM, Linux Admin wrote:
Thanks! So which one is managment then? I see dedicated managemnet iterface on all filers but 3020. Or do you manage over the data IP?
Unless you have some particular security requirements it should be OK to manage the filer over the data links. The amount of network traffic generated by management should be minor and won't interfere with data users.
Regarding security, it is probably better to secure the filer correctly regardless of the access method rather than relying on particular network addresses.
HTH, Jeremy
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On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 05:01:22PM -0600, Linux Admin wrote:
Thanks! So which one is managment then? I see dedicated managemnet iterface on all filers but 3020. Or do you manage over the data IP? Thanks
Unless I'm misunderstanding you, there are two other ports on the back of a FAS3020 that can be used for (out of band) management: 'console' and 'RLM'.
Folks, Not familiar with 3020 series at all. I see 4 nics (e0a, e0b, e0c,e0d) on the back of each head. Does it mean I have sacrifice one to be management and only 3 are available as data?
If you have the RLM module, you should see a 5th Rj45 port between e0a/e0b and e0c/e0d.
Otherwise, the Serial console is located on the lower right (facing the rear of the filer head.)
Regards, Max
Have NetApp change things? Or can I used all 4 in single/multi vips? I was going to do e0a and e0c in single A, e0b and and e0d in single B, and Multi VIP C on top of Sinlge A and Single B. Not sure what to do about management. Thanks for help
Thanks to all Folks that gave suggestions! The list is great. (Not sure I get messages that say that posting from gmail is banned)
On 1/3/07, Linux Admin sysadmin.linux@gmail.com wrote:
Folks, Not familiar with 3020 series at all. I see 4 nics (e0a, e0b, e0c,e0d) on the back of each head. Does it mean I have sacrifice one to be management and only 3 are available as data? Have NetApp change things? Or can I used all 4 in single/multi vips? I was going to do e0a and e0c in single A, e0b and and e0d in single B, and Multi VIP C on top of Sinlge A and Single B. Not sure what to do about management. Thanks for help
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