I've heard of something similar being supported through the RFQ process. That is, your Sales Team can request an exception from Engineering, which would provide direction and a statement of what support can be provided for a non-standard configuration. That being said, the RFQ might also require an EMC Professional Services engagement to have EMC personal perform the local configuration necessary.
lol it doesn't help if that process takes weeks to draw up . Just sort of one of those question to see if anyone has done it successfully and if so we would go into action to attempt it too... one of those deals.
We were unable to get an exception to connect 2 clusters to the same (huge) IB switches we had. I would be really surprised if you got an exception to trunk switches.
the thing is that they will actually be 1 cluster not 2. We have HD nodes and they aren't that easy to un-cable so it would be helpful to be able to just have the traffic traverse the switches until the migration to the new nodes is complete then all we would have to do is smartfail the old nodes from the cluster and brake the link aggregation between the 2 switches. Again, just trying to see if anyone was successful at doing this.
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December 9th, 2016 06:00
I've heard of something similar being supported through the RFQ process. That is, your Sales Team can request an exception from Engineering, which would provide direction and a statement of what support can be provided for a non-standard configuration. That being said, the RFQ might also require an EMC Professional Services engagement to have EMC personal perform the local configuration necessary.
Let us know if that helps!
Karl
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December 9th, 2016 11:00
Karl,
lol it doesn't help if that process takes weeks to draw up
. Just sort of one of those question to see if anyone has done it successfully and if so we would go into action to attempt it too... one of those deals.
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December 9th, 2016 14:00
We were unable to get an exception to connect 2 clusters to the same (huge) IB switches we had. I would be really surprised if you got an exception to trunk switches.
chjatwork
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December 13th, 2016 07:00
Ed,
the thing is that they will actually be 1 cluster not 2. We have HD nodes and they aren't that easy to un-cable so it would be helpful to be able to just have the traffic traverse the switches until the migration to the new nodes is complete then all we would have to do is smartfail the old nodes from the cluster and brake the link aggregation between the 2 switches. Again, just trying to see if anyone was successful at doing this.