Vlan Tagging

[anthonyfeigl]

Hey Everyone,

In reference to my previous post I have been told Vlan Tagging will help with (http://communities.netapp.com/message/11131#11131)

Does anyone have experience or advice on this with Multistore (vfilers)?

Thank You

Anthony

[adamfox]

I can't see why it wouldn't work with MultiStore.  You assign IPs to vfilers, not interfaces per se as interfaces can have multiple IPs.  So I would set up the vlan interfaces first, then assign the IPs to the vfilers.

[anthonyfeigl]

Do you have any specific examples?

Here is my Prod rc (man do I hate networking...probably cause I don't understand it)

hostname anthonyfiler1

# Setup production interface
ifconfig e7a flowcontrol full
ifconfig e7b flowcontrol full
ifconfig e9a flowcontrol full
ifconfig e9b flowcontrol full

vif create multi trunk1 e7b e7a
vif create multi trunk2 e9a e9b
vif create single anthonyfiler1 trunk1 trunk2
ifconfig anthonyfiler1 .15.103 netmask 255.255.254.0 partner anthonyfiler2                                          
oc2
vif favor trunk1
route add default .15.1 1

# Setup IP aliases for vfilers
#ifconfig anthonyfiler1 alias .15.??? netmask 255.255.254.0
ifconfig anthonyfiler1 alias .15.50 netmask 255.255.254.0
ifconfig anthonyfiler1 alias .15.51 netmask 255.255.254.0
ifconfig anthonyfiler1 alias .15.52 netmask 255.255.254.0
ifconfig anthonyfiler1 alias .15.53 netmask 255.255.254.0
ifconfig anthonyfiler1 alias .15.54 netmask 255.255.254.0
ifconfig anthonyfiler1 alias .15.55 netmask 255.255.254.0
ifconfig anthonyfiler1 alias .15.56 netmask 255.255.254.0
ifconfig anthonyfiler1 alias .15.57 netmask 255.255.254.0

# Setup filer management interface.
ifconfig e0 `hostname`a flowcontrol full netmask 255.255.254.0 mediatype 100tx-f                                                                              d
ifconfig anthonyfiler1 alias .15.59 netmask 255.255.254.0
ifconfig anthonyfiler1 alias .15.60 netmask 255.255.254.0
ifconfig anthonyfiler1 alias .15.61 netmask 255.255.254.0
ifconfig anthonyfiler1 alias .15.62 netmask 255.255.254.0
ifconfig anthonyfiler1 alias .15.79 netmask 255.255.254.0
ifconfig anthonyfiler1 alias .14.106 netmask 255.255.254.0

#routed on
options dns.domainname mycompany.com
options dns.enable on
options nis.enable off
savecore
#exportfs -a
nfs off

[adamfox]

Hmm...not sure how vlan tagging will help if all of your interfaces are on the same vlan.  In your case, aliasing may be the right answer.

Vlan tagging is used when you want an interface (physical or virtual) to span vlans/subnets.