Hi Ray,

* The ability to have tagged and untagged traffic on the same interface started with ONTAP 8.0+ o so, no luck for you with the 2050... * You can *add* vlans non-disruptively to an interface on which you already created at least one vlan. For the initial 'vlan create' though, the interface needs to be down. * the 'nfo' parameter just means, that if (one of) these interfaces becomes unavailable, it triggers a takeover. You need to configure 'partner' interfaces (on both nodes) to configure takeover behavior. * For (almost) non-disruptive reconfiguration you could do the following: o prepare the /etc/rc on both nodes with the VLAN configs you'll need + you might want to practice/test with a simulator... + don't forget to create a failover-interface on the partner (with the same VLAN...) and to configure the switch for that one, too! o Then either + failover/giveback both nodes (then you KNOW it works even in the event of a failure) o or + do a "source /etc/rc" to 'execute' the rc-file (you might have to down the interface first, since the commands in the rc assume a non-initialized state of the interfaces...). It might be faster than a takeover/giveback, though.

The failover/giveback works, because when the partner starts the 'virtual partner' filer it reads the partners /etc/rc from disk and therefore starts with the 'new' configuration... Assuming there's no typos and stuff (and the switches are prepared) it'll work like a charm...

Good luck

Sebastian

On 22.02.2013 06:38, Ray Van Dolson wrote:

ONTAP 7.3.6.

This is a FAS2050C (IBM N3600 A20) that has a SAS expansion card in each controller. As such, we're limited to only the two onboard GigE ports.

e0a and e0b both go to different physical switches and suck in two different networks, so we can't vif 'em together easily.

I have a need to introduce a vlan interface to e0a and am wondering if it's possible to do so non-disruptively and preserve access to the e0a via the untagged traffic on the network. Both interfaces are configured with 'nfo'.

I've found conflicting information on this.... some say you can mix untagged on your e0a interface and tagged traffic on e0a-vlan## just fine. Others say it's not doable and I'll need to get my network guys to tag all the traffic and move my e0a to a vlan interface.

Not sure I'm seeing a way to do this without some downtime... even if I do a cluster failover, I don't see how a failback would work if I've mucked with the interfaces.

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