On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Clooney, David wrote:
> They will be trying to backup a couple of TB's of data throughout the
> week, problem is that their network is only fast Ethernet 100mb and
> all the netbackup clients reside on the same subnet as the
> Master/Media server.
>
> The bottleneck is obviously the 100Mb NIC on the master media server.
>
> Has anyone any advice if having multiple interfaces on your master on
> the same subnet, to possibly use specific routes etc for the clients etc
> ? If at all possible?
Swap the ethernet switch out for a 24-port 10/100 switch with dual gig-e
uplinks. Plug the media and master server into the gig-e ports, plug the
clients into the 100Mbit/s ports.
--
Kris Kirby, KE4AHR <kris AT catonic DOT us>
But remember, with no superpowers comes no responsibility.
--rly
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