[c-nsp] pvlans and scalability

[Ramcharan, Vijay A]

I assume the 10Gbps connections are needed on the backup servers?  

How about connecting more 1Gbps NICs on the backup servers to the same
PVLAN and using different subnets on each new NIC; thereby splitting up
the load among each backup server's NICs. 
It would complicate the IP addressing situation somewhat as you are
probably using one large IP space for the PVLAN segment. 
 
Vijay Ramcharan 
  
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[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Jimmy Stewpot
Sent: March 13, 2008 09:13
To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: [c-nsp] pvlans and scalability

Hi All,

I am wondering what peoples experience is with pvlans. We currently have

a large pvlan deployment for our backup network, we have our backup 
servers on promisc ports and everything else is isolated. The problem we

have is that the servers do not have support for 10GbE cards (PCI-X only

  Sun boxes) and we are unable to use Etherchannel due to an asic 
limitation. Can anyone give me some advice or experience they have had 
in scaling with this type of situation?

Regards,

Jim
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