Trunking 1620 McData storage routerS for ethernet performance (iSCSI env.)

Hi group,

this is my first post on this comunity.

I have a question for which cannot find answer neither on google nor
documentation.

I have more 1620 McData storage routers (04M-R IBM nomenclature).

Now, 2 of them should be connected in failover fashion.
1 eth. (iSCSI) port to 1 IP switch.
A lot of iSCSI servers attached to an ethernet swithc.

The problem is that all I have left is 1Gb ethernet port and an
ethernet troughput becomes a bottleneck.

Is there any way to connect 2 1620 McData storage routers to work
together i.e. double the ethernet (very important) and FC troughput?

Any other idea?

Looknig forward to hear from you,

GD

Hello,

I am very familiar with the IPS line from Nishan/McDATA. There really
isn't a way to aggregate the switches together in a scalable fashion.
Since you are operating in an iSCSI environment, it really won't buy
you much unless your initiator has multi-path intelligence. Your iSCSI
initiator only has 1 path to your volume through the 1620 gateway. Now
if your iSCSI initiator could log into multiple portals and view a
single lun via multple connections, then you could round robin your IO
amongst the available paths.

Rob