2/17/2010 2:40 PM | |
Joined: 2/10/2010 Last visit: 11/6/2024 Posts: 77 Rating: (0) |
For configuration of Fault Tolerant Terminal Bus, in the manual (available from this link:SIMATIC Process Control System PCS 7 V7.0 SP1 Fault-tolerant Process Control System ) it is said that two network adaptors, Intel Pro/1000MT server adapter and Intel Pro/1000GT desktop adapter, are to be configured as a Team.There it is mentioned that Switch Fault Tolerance is to be selected as the Team mode. With this Team Mode, it is possible to get NW Switch redundancy, i.e., if one NW switch(for Terminal Bus 1)is switched off the NW adaptors connected to that switch is disabled and the other NW adaptors connected to the other switch (for Terminal Bus2) become active. But in this Team mode it is not possible to achieve Terminal Bus Redundancy, if any one of the four NW adaptors becomes faulty (e.g., if the NW cable connected to any one adaptor gets disconnected). As an experiment we tried Adaptor Fault Tolerance as the Team mode. In this case it was possible to achieve both NW Switch redundancy and NW adaptor redundancy. Please suggest whether we should retain our configuration with Team mode like Adaptor Fault Tolerance or we should follow Switch Fault Tolerance Team mode. |
2/19/2010 7:50 AM | |
Joined: 2/10/2010 Last visit: 11/6/2024 Posts: 77 Rating: (0) |
Dear Phantom75, I forgot to mention that we have tested using PCIe NW adapters, PCI ones. As mentioned in the manual for Fault-tolerant Process Control Systems (V7.1)I found that for PCIe configuration of the stations, one Intel® PRO/1000 PT Server Adapter and one Intel® PRO/1000 PT Desktop Adapter. But Intel® PRO/1000 PT Desktop Adapter is not available anymore,as mentioned in the following link http://www.intel.com/support/network/adapter/1000ptdesktop/sb/CS-030496.htm. So we used two Intel® PRO/1000 PT Server Adapters and it was not possible to achieve terminal bus redundancy for cable fault. We have not yet tried the configuration with WinCC. We were just trying the communication between two stations (the OS Server Master and the ES)having only PCIe slots are available. Later we shall be adding the Client Stations with PCI slots (for using one Intel Pro/1000MT server adapter and one Intel Pro/1000GT desktop adapter)available. |
2/22/2010 4:47 PM | |
Joined: 2/10/2010 Last visit: 11/6/2024 Posts: 77 Rating: (0) |
Somebody please help me what to do... |
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