You manage vifs on your storage system with the vif command. This command enables you to create, add interfaces to, delete interfaces from, display status and statistics of, and destroy a vif.
The following guidelines apply to creating and configuring vifs on your storage system:
The network interfaces that are part of a vif do not have to be on the same network adapter, but it is best that all network interfaces be full-duplex.
You can use the ifconfig command to configure the MTU size on the interfaces of a vif. You need to configure the MTU size only if you are enabling jumbo frames on the interfaces. For more information about jumbo frames, see Understanding frame size, MTU size, and jumbo frames.
Note
Do not mix interfaces of different speeds or media in the same multimode vif.
The vif command syntax is as follows:
vif create [single|multi] vif_name -b [rr|mac|ip] [interface_list]
vif {favor|nofavor} interface
vif add vif_name interface_list
vif delete vif_name interface
vif destroy vif_name
vif status [vif_name]
vif stat vif_name [interval]
For detailed information about the vif command and all the options available with this command, see the na_vif(1) man page.
The following vif commands are not persistent if used at the command line; however, you can put any of these commands in the /etc/rc file to make it persistent across reboots:
For detailed information about how to perform specific tasks using the vif command, see the following topics:
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