network thruput

Wed Jun 1 11:52:50 PDT 2005

>>So, all machines have a minimum of two NICs?
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>some machines have 4 nics.. all going to the same nortel switch 
>( same 1u box ) and connected via is stackable cable in the rear
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>some are channel bonded .. most are not
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Why do this, especially if they are not bonded?
>>With your above idea, why not have the backup server on both LANs? 
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>backups of 500GB during the day kills the network .. which it
>does when it goes to the $150K 10-tape library thingie 
>	which in itself should be on a separate tape lan
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>in my world, backups should be sorta invisible on the network,
>and see if the disk latency is tolerable for head seeks
Mine don't.  :)  Our STK L700 with FC/LTO2 is just dandy and not 
overloaded at all!  Then again, we are back to the system being 8CPU 
with 8G RAM and multiple gigE nonrouted networks.