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

eth3 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 68:B5:99:B2:FC:D5
UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:23177897 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1762308 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2410457366 (2.2 GiB) TX bytes:105730002 (100.8 MiB)
Memory:f3ea0000-f3ec0000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:3510263 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3510263 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:522831923 (498.6 MiB) TX bytes:522831923 (498.6 MiB)
Additional physical user networks
The additional physical user networks configuration builds on the dedicated management network
configuration by adding up to two additional physical networks to the configuration. The additional
physical networks can be set up to carry IBRIX user network traffic. One network carries cluster
and user network traffic. A separate network is dedicated to the management network traffic. A
third and optional fourth network can be used for additional user network traffic.
Motivation
Benefits of additional physical user networks:
• Provides the same benefits and disadvantages as the dedicated management network
configuration.
• Provides physically separated channels for different types of user traffic, which might be
important to the customer for security or manageability.
• Allocates the available 10G bandwidth between the physically separate networks, providing
assured bandwidth for each network.
• Pprovides a better match with customer networking infrastructure if, for example, the customer
has not yet completely implemented a 10 Gb/s networking infrastructure.
Reasons to choose a different configuration:
• Increased cabling required for a minimum configuration.
• Less flexibility without physical network changes.
• More effort for the customer to ensure that the network is configured correctly.
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