So last week I was pretty psyched up about having our video storage server connected to Galaxy Express…so much so that I forgot to monitor a backup job AFTER the server was plugged back in to the primary network.

You can imagine my dismay once I found out that backup jobs from video were failing. The reason? Galaxy Express could not establish a connection back to the video server.

The weird part? If I disconnect the cable connecting the server to the primary network (leaving only the connection VLAN’d to Galaxy Express), then things work just fine. As soon as I plug back into the primary network, Galaxy Express ceases to work, BUT I can still ping either server. VERY weird.

I’ve already tried swapping out NICs on the video server, but to no avail. This tells me that that it probably has to be something in the switching…but how? Everything I see tells me that the VLANs are configured correctly on each switch. And as I said before, pings are going through with no problem, so the connectivity seems to be there.

More on this as the plot unfolds. Possible film at 11.