Zen of IT

I was trying to setup a VIF on a system that only had 2 ethernet ports. I was doing this over the Filerview web interface but it kept failing to add the second ethernet connection.
As I'm a true techie I moved to the commandline - but I still had issues. It transpires that ethernet commands made at the commandline are not persistant over reboots! I know. CRAZY! By the book you should directly edit the config file - but in this case Microsoft came to my rescuse. The MMC created the VIF no problem at all!
I don't think Netapp have support for the MMC, I believe it is an IBM creation - so there is a reason to go IBM Nseries as opposed to vanilla Netapp.

Todays lesson is REMEBER THAT CHANGES TO ETHERNET MADE ON THE COMMAND LINE DO NOT SURVIVE REBOOTS!