Re: Bridging fc to scsi for NetApp filer backups

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 21:06:09 +0100, "Rene Koehnen-Wiesemes"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> Performance blows, every weekend when we run fulls something goes into
>> the weeds, and everytime (but once) it's been the bridge.
>>
>
>Please provide us with more details about the problems you have.
>
>Rene
>

Well, they're all over the board but they always start with
performance dropping to it's knees.  The bridge has very little in the
way of online diags so inevitably the solution is reboot the bridge.
Everything from buffer overflows to mis-presenting scsi id's.

I'm looking more for information from people who already have this
sort of setup and what they think of it.  Not necessarily a bridge but
filers using fiber to backup.
Ideally I'd go stright to fiber drives but SDLT has no native fiber
yet.

~F