6.2 HP IBRIX 9000 Storage Network Best Practices Guide (TA768-96069, December 2012)

Contents
1 Overview of HP IBRIX 9000 Series networking...............................................5
IBRIX components.....................................................................................................................5
Networks.................................................................................................................................5
FSN physical networking...........................................................................................................6
FSN failover.............................................................................................................................7
User VIF failover.....................................................................................................................12
Cluster network implications.....................................................................................................18
FSN customer integration features.............................................................................................18
Additional user VIFs ..........................................................................................................19
VLAN tagging...................................................................................................................20
Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) trunking......................................................................24
Protocol usage.......................................................................................................................25
2 IBRIX 9730 platform networking.................................................................26
Network attached components.................................................................................................26
Onboard Administrators (OA)..............................................................................................26
Server blades....................................................................................................................26
Integrated Lights Out Controller (iLO)....................................................................................26
Interconnect Module: Virtual Connect (VC)............................................................................27
Interconnect Module: 6G SAS switch....................................................................................27
Recommended network topologies.......................................................................................27
Unified network......................................................................................................................28
Motivation........................................................................................................................28
Logical description.............................................................................................................29
Physical description............................................................................................................31
Physical cabling.................................................................................................................33
Verifying the network configuration......................................................................................35
Dedicated management network..............................................................................................36
Motivation........................................................................................................................36
Logical description.............................................................................................................37
Physical description............................................................................................................39
Physical cabling.................................................................................................................41
Verifying the network configuration......................................................................................43
Additional physical user networks.............................................................................................44
Motivation........................................................................................................................44
Logical description.............................................................................................................45
Physical description............................................................................................................47
Physical cabling.................................................................................................................50
3 IBRIX 93xx platform networking..................................................................54
Network attached components.................................................................................................54
Rack mounted server..........................................................................................................54
Integrated Lights Out Controller (iLO)....................................................................................54
MSA storage enclosure.......................................................................................................54
Unified network......................................................................................................................54
Motivation........................................................................................................................55
Logical description.............................................................................................................56
Physical description............................................................................................................57
Physical cabling.................................................................................................................59
Verifying the network configuration......................................................................................61
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