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

Logical description
Figure 12 IBRIX 9730 dedicated management network — logical view
The dedicated management network configuration logically is two separate IP networks with one
network for the user/cluster traffic and a separate network for the management traffic. In this
configuration, the file serving nodes are equipped with two separate bonds: bond0 provides a
direct connection to the management network, and bond1 provides the connection to the user/cluster
network.
In Figure 12, the sample IP addresses illustrate the relationship between components and subnets.
The subnet mask and IP address assignments in the figure are for illustration purposes only; customer
address allocation schemes can be done differently.
The customer is responsible for establishing any required routes in their network. The IBRIX 9730
cannot set these up automatically.
At the logical layer, all FSN access to the network is done through a bond interface to allow the
underlying physical layer to implement multiple pathways to the network. The next section describes
how the bond interfaces map to the underlying physical interfaces.
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