Eyal -- I tried vif favor in both multi and single. I can live without load balancing (though I would think that once the one link was saturated, packets from another source would go over the ethernet connection in the vif). My main concern is it wants to use e0 all the time. We have found here that we had to move the 100mb nic to slot 6 to get performance, we had netapp come out and we finally had to use the following configuration. Copying a 100mb file to e0 would take 24 sec, copying to the nic card in another slot would take 24 sec. It wasn't until we moved it to slot 6 and used 8k packets did we get 10 sec copy times. So the e6 is 100mb.

smf760-01> sysconfig -v NetApp Release 5.3.6R2: Sat Aug 5 09:40:44 PDT 2000 System ID: 0016800487 (smf760-01); partner ID: 0016800485 (smf760-02) slot 0: System Board (NetApp System Board V N8) Model Name: F760 Serial Number: 235663 Firmware release: 2.3_a2 Memory Size: 1024 MB slot 0: Fibre Channel Host Adapter 0a (Qlogic ISP2100 rev. 3, 64-bit) Firmware rev: 1.19.6 Host Loop Id: 7 FC Node Name: 2:000:00a098:03988f Cacheline size: 8 FC Packet size: 2048 slot 0: SCSI Host Adapter 0b (Qlogic ISP 1040B) Fast/Wide, Differential Firmware Version 4.65 Clock Rate 60MHz. slot 0: Ethernet Controller e0 MAC Address: 00:a0:98:00:7d:b4 (auto--down) slot 4: Fibre Channel Host Adapter 4 (Qlogic ISP2100 rev. 3, 32-bit) Firmware rev: 1.19.6 Host Loop Id: 7 FC Node Name: 2:000:00e08b:018aa7 Cacheline size: 8 FC Packet size: 2048 0: SEAGATE ST318203FC NA07 Size=17.0GB (35566480 blocks) 1: SEAGATE ST318203FC NA07 Size=17.0GB (35566480 blocks) 2: SEAGATE ST318203FC NA07 Size=17.0GB (35566480 blocks) 3: SEAGATE ST318203FC NA07 Size=17.0GB (35566480 blocks) 4: SEAGATE ST318203FC NA07 Size=17.0GB (35566480 blocks) 5: SEAGATE ST318203FC NA07 Size=17.0GB (35566480 blocks) 6: SEAGATE ST318203FC NA07 Size=17.0GB (35566480 blocks) Shelf 0: VEM Kernel Version : 2.5 App. Version : 3.0 slot 6: FastEnet-10/100 Ethernet Controller Device Type: 82559 e6 MAC Address: 00:90:27:be:a8:b5 (auto-100tx-fd-up) slot 7: Fibre Channel Host Adapter 7 (Qlogic ISP2100 rev. 3, 32-bit) Firmware rev: 1.19.6 Host Loop Id: 7 FC Node Name: 2:000:00e08b:0189a7 Cacheline size: 8 FC Packet size: 2048 0: SEAGATE ST318203FC NA07 Size=17.0GB (35566480 blocks) 1: SEAGATE ST318203FC NA07 Size=17.0GB (35566480 blocks) 2: SEAGATE ST318203FC NA07 Size=17.0GB (35566480 blocks) 3: SEAGATE ST318203FC NA07 Size=17.0GB (35566480 blocks) 4: SEAGATE ST318203FC NA07 Size=17.0GB (35566480 blocks) 5: SEAGATE ST318203FC NA07 Size=17.0GB (35566480 blocks) 6: SEAGATE ST318203FC NA07 Size=17.0GB (35566480 blocks) Shelf 0: VEM Kernel Version : 2.5 App. Version : 3.0 slot 8: Interconnect adapter (Tandem ServerNet SPA 1.5) slot 9: NVRAM (NetApp NVRAM II) Revision: A0 Serial Number: 23271 Memory Size: 32 MB Battery 1 Status: 100% (3.22v) Battery 2 Status: 100% (3.22v)

thanks

art

-----Original Message----- From: Traitel, Eyal [mailto:eyal@netapp.com] Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 8:52 AM To: 'Art Hebert'; 'toasters@mathworks.com' Subject: RE: Vif and Cluster setup questions

I'm almost 100% percent sure that vif favor will affect only single vifs. I will check later on, but you should be able to see that in docs as well.

Regarding load balancing - EtherChannel is more about failover than balancing. It distributes to ports based on last 2 bits of MAC address. In real life, one device is becoming the one that's more used than the others.

Is e6 GbE ? Can you post your sysconfig -v ?

Eyal.

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-----Original Message----- From: Art Hebert [mailto:art@arzoon.com] Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 4:55 PM To: 'toasters@mathworks.com' Subject: Vif and Cluster setup questions

I've read all the posts and I am having some success and some failures.

2 F760 filers clustered together, onboard ethernet (e0), 10/100 nic (e6) Cisco 6509 switch trunked together

I'm trying to get the e0 and e6 ports to work failover for each other and ideally load balance to get better performance.

I've been able to get the virtual interface running and fail the cluster and everything is fine but I can't get it to load balance (I even tried 4 clients hitting it copying 500mb files) and it seems to always want to use e0, even if I do a "vif favor e6"

Here is my rc lines:

ifconfig e6 mediatype 100tx-fd ifconfig e0 mediatype 100tx-fd vif create multi vif01 e6 e0 vif favor e6 ifconfig vif01 `hostname`-e6 mediatype 100tx-fd partner vif01

Now I added the vif favor e6 even though its multi (shouldn't have to it should load balance), right? Does it matter what order the e6 and e0 commands come in, seems that it affects how vif stat reports? Can I even use e0 and e6 together or should I have another card? its on the 32 bit bus and performance is half of e6. Are the nic cards in the netapps anything special or can I use a well known brand ?

Thanks

Art Hebert Email: art@arzoon.com mailto:art@arzoon.com Arzoon IT Dept. Phone: 650 522-6125 Mobile: 650 444-8667