Hi Bill,  Jyothi is correct, in that fail-safe networking is configured on the VNXe storage systems by default. However, this is only true for the VNXe3100, VNXe3150, and VNXe3300 models. This is noted in the following VNXe High Availability white paper for these models. VNXe High Availability - VNXe3100, VNXe3150, and VNXe3300  The VNXe3200 does not use fail-safe networking. In the example you provided, the NAS Server that is associated with Ethernet Port 2 on SPA would remain on SPA until the SP reboots or is placed into Service Mode. To survive a link failure on SPA Ethernet Port 2, your NAS Server would need to leverage Link Aggregation. Please take a look at the VNXe3200 High Availability white paper for more information. VNXe3200 High Availability
Hello,  Assume I have a VNXe 3200, with a CIFS Server created on SP A, using the Ethernet 2 interface only.  Assume I have Ethernet 2 on SP A and SP B both cabled to the correct Layer 2 network for CIFS.  There is no LCAP / 802.3ad at play, because only a single Ethernet interface is being used.  Let's assume that the Cat6 cable on SP A Ethernet 2 fails, but SP A itself is just fine.  Does the VNXe 3200 automatically and transparently "float" the IP address from the SP A Eth2 interface to the SP B Eth2 interface?  Bonus question: Does the MAC address also move (i.e. virtual floating MAC address), or does the IP address simply get re-registered to the new MAC address on SP B Eth2?  Another bonus question: What kind of "delay" or "timeout" would a CIFS user see in this case?  Let's say I am in the middle of a large file transfer.  Does the transfer simply "pause" for 10 seconds, or does the file copy actually get aborted, network share disconnected, and then later on re-connected?  Final bonus question: Is the behavior essentially the same for an NFS Server on a VNXe 3200?  Thanks, Bill
Does VNXe 3200 provide Fail-Safe Networking automatically between SPs?