HP StoreAll Storage Network Best Practices Guide
Table Of Contents
- HP StoreAll Storage Network Best Practices Guide
- Contents
- 1 Overview of HP StoreAll Storage networking
- 2 StoreAll 9730 platform networking
- 3 StoreAll 93xx/8x00 platform networking
- 4 Expanding an existing cluster
- 5 Support and other resources
- 6 Documentation feedback
- A BOND modes
- B StoreAll 93xx 10 GbE bonding modes and switch interconnection
- C Install and the default Virtual Connect configuration
Available network topologies
The ASCII Installation wizard available in StoreAll OS v6.5 now supports 4 different networking
configurations as part of the primary installation flow. These additional network topologies are
available if the flat network topology does not meet your needs.
NOTE: HP still recommends using the flat (unified) topology as default. Use one of the other
topologies only if it better fits your network needs.
The network topologies are:
• Flat (unified): See “Flat network” (page 55).
• Flat (unified) with iLO management: This topology has two physical networks with management
traffic separated onto a unique physical network.
• Dual Network: This topology has two physical networks. The management and cluster traffic
are on the first network and the user protocol traffic is on the second network.
• Dual Network with iLO management: This topology has three physical networks with cluster
traffic on the first network, management traffic on the second network, and user protocol traffic
on the third network.
Preferred bonding modes
In all cases, HP recommends that you configure the initial networking with mode 1 to ensure that
cabling and customer networking are working correctly. Once networking is configured with mode
1, you can switch to mode 4 or 6 as a separate step with confidence that the basic networking is
working, and that any problems encountered are due to the change in bonding mode.
• For 10 Gb links, only modes 1 and 4 are supported. Mode 4 is recommended, but customer
network switches must be configured correctly to support it.
• For 1 Gb links, mode 6 is still supported, but mode 4 is highly recommended, as problems
have been encountered with mode 6 stability.
Maximum number of VLANs supported
StoreAll supports configurations with up to 12 simultaneous VLANs. Testing has confirmed
simultaneous support for up to 16 VLANs. However, adding more than 12 VLANs causes node
failover events to take an excessive amount of time.
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