Jennifer,
All my GigE switch ports are locked to 1000/Full with negotiation on
according to the output from the Cisco 6509. The NICs are all set to auto
(as you say, that's all you can have) Try locking the switch ports as
mentioned.
The Cisco IOS won't allow half-duplex to be set on GigE ports anyway.
Good luck - Tim
From: "Jennifer C. Green" <jc AT goo-rooz DOT com>
To: "Coco, Samuel \(Cont, ARL/CISD\)" <scoco AT arl.army DOT mil>,
"Paul Boatman" <boatm005 AT groupwise.umn DOT edu>,
<Dwayne.Brzozowski AT mail.va DOT gov>, <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn
DOT edu>
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Is there an official document of client and server
NICand switch settings
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 09:47:47 -0600
Does anyone have any info on this with Gig cards - they only have Auto,
there are no other options. Veritas does not recommend Auto but in this
case there is no choice. This is a windows environment and I am seeing the
same thing - but interesting that this started happening when upgrading from
3.4.1 to 4.5 - has anyone seen this?
I am at my wits end and dont know how to solve. Veritas does have some ways
of testing network without NBU involved to show that it is not NBU but then
what do I tell the network guys?
Thanks for the dialougue, this is mostly helpful.
Jennifer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Coco, Samuel (Cont, ARL/CISD)" <scoco AT arl.army DOT mil>
To: "Paul Boatman" <boatm005 AT groupwise.umn DOT edu>;
<Dwayne.Brzozowski AT mail.va DOT gov>; <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT
edu>
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 7:40 AM
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Is there an official document of client and server
N ICand switch settings
> YES !!! - - - >
>
> Here at ARL (Army Research Lab), we had the same issues. Once we
> demonstrated the variances and the networking team verified our claims
> using checkpoint and other tools - the entire organization now 'hard
> sets' the majority of our connections.
>
> Thank you,
>
>
> Samuel J. Coco, STG
> Functional Area Manager, ARL
> Sr UNIX Administrator
> BELL 301 394-1151 DSN 290
> CELL (B) 240 398-7121 / (H)443 496-1623
> HOME 410 604-2415
> Email scoco AT arl.army DOT mil
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Paul
> Boatman
> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 8:33 AM
> To: Dwayne.Brzozowski AT mail.va DOT gov; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn
> DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Is there an official document of client and
> server N ICand switch settings
>
>
> I work at the 6th largest university in the country. About 1 year ago,
> the entire university was required to switch to AUTO-AUTO across ALL
> platforms because of network infrastructure changes ("eek !"). The
> impact on Veritas Netbackup has been ridiculous. Our drives are sitting
> here getting 10%-20% thruput, and our capacity is maxed out when it
> shouldn't be. Tape management and load balancing between 2 robots (1 of
> which is maxed out tape-wise, the other is maxed out drive-wise) is a
> nightmare. Upper management is blaming the software, scheduler, and
> drive technology claiming that they are not sufficient.
>
> Is anyone else in a similar situation ?
>
> What are the "settings that work" Dwayne ? I am very interested.
> Maybe we could present this info to our Network / Telecom guys. By the
> way Dwayne, I am a veteran so I sure do appreciate you guys in the VA.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
> >>> "Biller, Tim" <Tim.Biller AT uk.experian DOT com> 3/18/2004 02:55:30 >>>
> Hi Cheryl,
>
> Have the Network Admins lock the switch port speed to 100Mbit and Full
> Duplex and make sure the client NIC is set exactly the same on ALL the
> servers. The Unix boxes will need setting explicitly as Mark says, and
> a file added to ensure they stay that way after a reboot. (Your
> sysadmins should know this....)
>
> Most network switches always auto-negotiate to the lowest possible speed
> so it's essential to lock this down. Any decent network admin should
> know this....
>
> Are you running on a dedicated backup LAN? If there's no impact on other
> systems there's absolutely no reason not to max out the ports and NICs.
>
>
> I'm not aware of any specific documentation that states that 100/Full
> should be used but if performance sucks under autoneg and it flies under
> 100/Full then there's your argument. What tape drives are you using?
> Are you using SSO?
>
> Cheers - Tim
>
>
> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:03:10 -0700
> From: "King, Cheryl" <cheryl.king AT intrado DOT com>
> To: "Veritas-Bu \(E-mail\)" <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Is there an official document of client and server
> NIC and switch settings
>
> Over and over again we have problems with poor performance with new
> client backups and restores. Is there a document that says what the NIC
> settings should be for each client type? For example we have highest
> speed possible for all of them, half duplex for HP, and full duplex for
> everything else, I think (I haven't checked every system and wasn't here
> when some were implemented). Setting Auto detect on the switch seems to
> not work correctly
> (causes slow performance). I think the switches are set to match the
> server, but have no way to verify that. I'd like to be able to present
> an official document to the System Administrators and the Network
> Engineers that states the correct configuration requirements. Does
> Veritas have such a document or statement?
>
> Is this a problem in other environments? Is this just an issue in
> Veritas Backup environments? Are my SAs and Network Engineers not
> following some
> industry, standard, best-practices? I've been in IT for many years
> but
> working with Veritas NBU for 1 year. I don't recall ever having network
> issues like this before.
>
> NBU 4.5 FP5 Solaris 8 Master/Media
> Clients OSF1_V5, HP-UX 11.00, HP-UX10.20, Windows2000, WindowsNT,
> RedHat2.4, RedHat 2.2, Solaris8, Solaris7.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Cheryl King
>
>
> From: "Donaldson, Mark" <Mark.Donaldson AT experianems DOT com>
> To: "'King, Cheryl'" <cheryl.king AT intrado DOT com>,
> "Veritas-Bu (E-mail)"
> <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Is there an official document of client and
> serv
> er NIC and switch settings
> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:31:48 -0700
>
> The network settings are outside Netbackup control.
>
> You should always set to your highest possible speeds. For many
> server/switch combinations, auto-negotiation fails to negotiate the
> highest settings and they must often be forced to the best setting using
> ndd or similar utilities.
>
> Half-duplex performance stinks - are you sure that's what only what HP
> can do?
>
> Your network person should be able to query a smart-enough switch for
> the switch port settings, the SA should be able to query the ethernet
> port for the same settings.
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