How many of you are testing or using gigabit on the filer? I have some friends that have been doing it, but only 66% success.
The 1 person using the Alteon (or whatever the NetApp reccomended one is) got good results; but the density is lacking.
Another person is using a Foundry switch between a filer (630) and a DEC alphastation. He is getting decent results. But the Foundry equipment is also less than dense (and will be expensive when they put the chassis systems out).
Finally, another friend is using a Prominet Cajun switch (good density, excellent price) but cannot get the filer to "ring up" on the switch. Looks like it might be a Prominet issue.
Has anyone tried other equipment? Cisco (beta tesing)? YAGO?
Success stories? Horror stories?
I need to go from FDDI to something faster (and less expensive). ATM is not it.. :)
My plan is to put the filers on gigabit, as well as our backups machine and the heavy use clients (servers). The rest of the servers can use switched 100mbit.
Thanks.
Alexei
On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Alexei Rodriguez wrote:
I need to go from FDDI to something faster (and less expensive). ATM is not it.. :)
Would EtherChannel be good enough?
(4 aggregated 100mbit Ethernet connections...*not* that same as having four 100mbit Ethernet interfaces, however)
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+--- In a previous state of mind, Marc Nicholas marc@hippocampus.net wrote: | | > I need to go from FDDI to something faster (and less expensive). | > ATM is not it.. :) | | Would EtherChannel be good enough? | | (4 aggregated 100mbit Ethernet connections...*not* that same as having | four 100mbit Ethernet interfaces, however)
We currently use it on some switches. It works. But I don't think that the filers support it.
If the filer supported it, it would be cheaper (I would think; at least on the switch side of the house).
Hell, might as well go for broke :)
Alexei
As of DataONTAP 4.3, 1xGigE is supported on the F520 and F630.
Alexei Rodriguez wrote:
+--- In a previous state of mind, Marc Nicholas marc@hippocampus.net wrote: | | > I need to go from FDDI to something faster (and less expensive). | > ATM is not it.. :) | | Would EtherChannel be good enough? | | (4 aggregated 100mbit Ethernet connections...*not* that same as having | four 100mbit Ethernet interfaces, however)
We currently use it on some switches. It works. But I don't think that the filers support it.
If the filer supported it, it would be cheaper (I would think; at least on the switch side of the house).
Hell, might as well go for broke :)
Alexei
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