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Re: [Veritas-bu] Mutiple NICS on a Master/Media

2008-11-23 17:35:19
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Mutiple NICS on a Master/Media
From: Kris Kirby <kris AT catonic DOT us>
To: "Clooney, David" <david.clooney AT bankofamerica DOT com>
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:20:56 -0600 (CST)
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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