Re: Bridging fc to scsi for NetApp filer backups

Is that a per stream rate?  How many streams?  In all but the first
case the switch has bnever been part of the problem.  We do dwdm for
some of the filers hence the fc switches.  Also, all the local filers
won't fit directly onto the bridge.

Can you post the firmware version you're using?  Are you chaining any
drives off the bus?  Question bombardment I know, but it's nice to
hear someone is able to use it and I'd like to be able to duplicate
that....

Thanks.

~F

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 02:13:50 GMT, "Net Worker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>We have a filer (R150) that uses fiber to connect to an L700 via a crossroad
>bridge (1 Gig 1/f).
>No problems so far, but we don't have  a fiber switch in between,
>just R150-> crossroad.-> tape drives
>Performance averages 18995 KB/s
>-G
>
>"Faeandar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> 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
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