Network and Storage Protocols
Network and Storage Protocols
hi
I need a best practice and installation guide for the below config.
Hello,
Having just finished deploying a FAS-2240 I am will to offer any assistance needed. There are volumes of information out there however my first question what is the planned use for the system? For example we are using our for CIFS File Share (Windows Shares) and Fiber Channel LUNs for VMware. We also have implemented a flash pool so that will affect how you assign disks and great aggregates.
Quickly, when implementing CIFS shares we had to consider networking capabilities and restraints. We only have four 1Gb ports and have to serve out shares and perform backups. Our approach was to create one VIF using e0a and e0b to serve CIFS Shares and then create a second VIF using e0c and e0d to support NDMP backups Using Backup Exec. It has taken me a little over a 5 week to go from test to partial production use.
A little more information would truly help.
Jim
As mentioned by Jim, it is crucial to understand the uses for the system before giving away any advice.
What I am sure of, is that deploying a system with no hot spare disks, especially in a RAID-4 configuration rather than RAID-DP, is never recommended for prodcution environments.
Here is my final production config. All drive configuration are RAID-DP.
Jim
FAS-2240 in a HA Pair
PCM-1 (Primary Node)
aggr0 - 3 SAS Disks and 1 spare supporting rg0
rg0 - SAS Disks supporting vol0
vol0 - Data OnTap and Boot Volume
fp_aggr - 16 SAS Disks and 1 spare plus 5 SSD Disks and 1 spare
rg0 - SAS Disks supporting Volumes View_Dedicated, View_Linked, View_Templates, vol_vm_1, and vol_home
rg1 - SSD Disks supporting the Flash Pool capability
e0a and e0b assigned to VIF1 on the production network supporting CIFS Shares partnered to VIF2
e0c and e0d assigned to VIF3 on the backup network support CIFS backups to Backup Exec partnered to VIF4
e0m on the management network partnered to PCM-2 e0m
e0p on the management network
FC
1a and 1b - Connected to dual Cisco MDS-9124 FC Switches presenting LUNs View_Dedicated, View_Linked, View_Templates, vol_vm_1
CIFS - using VIF1 and presenting vol_home
PCM-2 (Secondary Node)
aggr0 - 3 SAS Disks and 1 spare supporting rg0
rg0 - SAS Disks supporting vol0
vol0 - Data OnTap and Boot Volume
e0a and e0b assigned to VIF2 on the production network supporting CIFS Shares partnered to VIF1
e0c and e0d assigned to VIF4 on the backup network support CIFS backups to Backup Exec partnered to VIF3
e0m on the management network partnered to PCM-1 e0m
e0p on the management network
FC
1a and 1b - Connected to dual Cisco MDS-9124 FC Switches
CIFS - using VIF2