Administrator Guide

IP port-groups contain:
● option-set context contains configuration options common to the member ports.
● subnet context contains configuration options for IP networking. Different roles have different networking needs, and thus
their subnet contexts contain different properties. These subnets are descried under their associated role.
● enabled - Summarizes the enabled status of the individual member ports.
Member ports
All properties under the member-ports context are read-only.
All port-groups include a member-ports context that lists the port from each director in the port group. Port-groups will
remember member-ports from directors that become unreachable. If a director becomes unreachable, the port-group will display
the unreachable ports, but indicate that they are unreachable. Remembering unreachable ports is only possible if the current
instance of the CLI learned about the port before the director became unreachable. If a director is unreachable when the CLI
starts, its ports will not appear in any port-group.
A long listing of the member-ports context provides a summary of the port-group's member ports:
VPlexcli:/clusters/cluster-1/connectivity/wan-com/port-groups/ip-port-group-0/member-
ports> ll
Director Port Enabled Address
-------------- ----- ------- --------------
director-1-1-A WC-00 enabled 192.168.10.35|
director-1-1-B WC-00 enabled 192.168.10.36|
The member-ports context contains a sub-context for each director that contributes a port to the port-group:
VPlexcli:/clusters/cluster-1/connectivity/wan-com/port-groups/ip-port-group-0/member-
ports/director-1-1-A> ll
Name Value
--------- --------------
address 192.168.10.35|
director director-1-1-A
enabled enabled
port-name WC-00
These sub-contexts provide limited details about that director's port. You can find full details under the director's /
clusters/*/directors/*/ports context.
NOTE: The address field is not port-type specific, and will display the address as appropriate for the port type.
subnets context
A subnet is a logical subdivision of an IP network. metro node IP addresses are logically divided into two fields:
● A network or routing prefix.
On a metro node, the prefix attribute includes a prefix and subnet mask. Specified as an IP address and subnet mask in
integer dot notation, separated by a colon.
For example: 192.168.20.0:255.255.255.0
● A specific identifier for the configuration or the network interface.
NOTE:
Metro node subnet addresses must be consistent, the cluster address and the gateway address must be in the
subnet specified by the prefix.
Only ip port-groups have subnet contexts. Use the subnet contexts to display and modify the IP networking configuration
used by the member ports. However, since different roles have different networking requirements, the properties in the subnet
context are role-dependent.
Subnet attribute requirements:
● mtu must be set to a number of bytes between 1024 and 9000.
● prefix must contain the IP address of any member ports in the port-group.
● prefix must contain the cluster-address.
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