Re: 10GbE to 40GbE Upgrade

Thanks Scott and Andre!

--Carl

On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 1:59 PM tmac <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have used that method also. Both work very well.
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> On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 2:57 PM André M. Clark <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Best way to do this is one node at a time. I’m going with the presumption
>> that the 40GbE cards are in slot 1 of the A300s.
>>
>> First thing you would do is migrate all of your data LIFs from node1 to
>> node2. You can do this with the migrate-all command:
>>
>> cluster1::> network interface migrate-all -node node1
>>
>> If you have iSCSI LIFs, you will have to down the LIFs and modify them to
>> have node2 as the home node and respective ports:
>>
>> cluster1::> network interface modify -vserver svm1 -lif iscsi1
>> -status-admin down
>> cluster1::> network interface modify -vserver svm1 -lif iscsi1 -home-node
>> node2 -home-port a0a
>>
>> Additionally, if you have any intercluster LIFs, you will have to record
>> their information so you can recreate them; presuming you don’t have
>> another port on the local node to move to that would be valid.
>>
>> Once all of the LIFs have been moved over to node2, remove the existing
>> 10GbE ports from the interface group on node1 and add the new 40GbE
>> ports:
>>
>> cluster1::> network port ifgrp remove-port -node node1 -ifgrp a0a -port
>> e0e
>> cluster1::> network port ifgrp remove-port -node node1 -ifgrp a0a -port
>> e0g
>> cluster1::> network port ifgrp add-port -node node1 -ifgrp a0a -port e1a
>> cluster1::> network port ifgrp add-port -node node1 -ifgrp a0a -port e1b
>>
>> Validate your interface group status and begin reverting your LIFs back
>> to node1:
>>
>> cluster1::> network port ifgrp show
>> cluster1::> network interface revert *
>>
>> NOTE: You will have to manually modify any iSCSI LIFs and recreate any
>> intercluster LIFs that you recorded.
>>
>> Repeat for node2 and you should be good to go.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Andre M. Clark
>>
>>
>> From: Carl Howell <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
>> Reply: Carl Howell <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
>> Date: June 15, 2021 at 14:22:14
>> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
>> Subject:  10GbE to 40GbE Upgrade
>>
>> We currently have an A300 cluster, each node has 2x10GbE interfaces in a
>> multimode_lacp ifgrp connected to 2xCisco 9K's. We are upgrading each node
>> with 2x40GbE interfaces. The question is how best to go about doing
>> the upgrade?
>>
>> It would of course be nice if we could just add the 40GbE interfaces to
>> the current port channels and ifgrp's, but I don't think the 9K's will
>> allow us to mix speeds in a port channel. Perhaps it's possible on the 9K
>> side to set the new interfaces to 10GbE, add them to the ifgrp's and port
>> channels, drop the original 10GbE interfaces out and raise the speed on the
>> new interfaces up to 40GbE. . .
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any help.
>>
>> --Carl
>>
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