topic Load Blancing Policy in Network and Storage Protocols https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Load-Blancing-Policy/m-p/62729#M5674 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I need to know what is the best practice for load balancing my Netapp 3140. Currently my controller #1 is quite a bit "busier" than controller 2. In viewing the OPS in Operations Manager, the majority of the traffic is from CIFS and NFS, iSCSI is "sleeping". On controller 2 although it is less busy than controller 1 the iSCSI OPS are significantly higher. I am in the process of putting a rather OPS intensive database on via iSCSI and need to know which Controller I should host the prod DB Lun on. Controller 1 which is overall more busy but iSCSI is not busy at all, or Controller 2 which is less busy but iSCSI is more busy. I apologize if this is confusing... Also does anyone have a "safe" number of OPS per protocal that should not be exceeded per Netapp controller?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:48:46 GMT qanderson 2025-06-05T06:48:46Z Load Blancing Policy https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Load-Blancing-Policy/m-p/62729#M5674 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I need to know what is the best practice for load balancing my Netapp 3140. Currently my controller #1 is quite a bit "busier" than controller 2. In viewing the OPS in Operations Manager, the majority of the traffic is from CIFS and NFS, iSCSI is "sleeping". On controller 2 although it is less busy than controller 1 the iSCSI OPS are significantly higher. I am in the process of putting a rather OPS intensive database on via iSCSI and need to know which Controller I should host the prod DB Lun on. Controller 1 which is overall more busy but iSCSI is not busy at all, or Controller 2 which is less busy but iSCSI is more busy. I apologize if this is confusing... Also does anyone have a "safe" number of OPS per protocal that should not be exceeded per Netapp controller?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:48:46 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Load-Blancing-Policy/m-p/62729#M5674 qanderson 2025-06-05T06:48:46Z Load Blancing Policy https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Load-Blancing-Policy/m-p/62733#M5675 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I might also look into the CPU and disk utilization as well, while considering load distribution.</P><P><SPAN style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Also need to keep in mind, each system should bebalanced such that in case of a cluster failover, surviving node can take the fullload.</SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 04 Aug 2011 20:39:43 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Load-Blancing-Policy/m-p/62733#M5675 baijulal 2011-08-04T20:39:43Z