HP StorageWorks P4000 User Manual page 6

Using DHCP ............................................................................................................................ 86
To set IP address using DHCP .............................................................................................. 86
Configuring network interface bonds ........................................................................................... 87
Best practices .................................................................................................................... 88
IP address for NIC bonds .............................................................................................. 88
NIC bonding and speed, duplex, frame size, and flow control settings ............................... 88
How Active-Passive works .................................................................................................... 88
Physical and logical interfaces ....................................................................................... 89
Requirements for Active-Passive ...................................................................................... 89
Which physical interface is preferred .............................................................................. 89
Summary of NIC status during failover ........................................................................... 90
Example network cabling topologies with Active-Passive ................................................... 90
How link aggregation dynamic mode works .......................................................................... 92
Requirements for link aggregation dynamic mode ............................................................ 92
Which physical interface is preferred .............................................................................. 93
Which physical interface is active .................................................................................. 93
Summary of NIC states during failover ........................................................................... 93
Example network cabling topologies with link aggregation dynamic mode .......................... 94
How Adaptive Load Balancing works ................................................................................... 94
Requirements for Adaptive Load Balancing ...................................................................... 94
Which physical interface is preferred .............................................................................. 94
Which physical interface is active .................................................................................. 95
Summary of NIC states during failover ........................................................................... 95
Example network cabling topologies with Adaptive Load Balancing .................................. 95
Creating a NIC bond ......................................................................................................... 96
Prerequisites ................................................................................................................ 96
Bond guidelines .......................................................................................................... 96
Creating the bond ....................................................................................................... 97
Verify communication setting for new bond ..................................................................... 99
Viewing the status of a NIC bond ......................................................................................... 99
Deleting a NIC bond ........................................................................................................ 101
Verify NIC settings and communication settings after deleting a bond ............................... 102
Disabling a network interface ................................................................................................... 102
Disabling a network interface ............................................................................................ 103
If the storage system is in a management group ............................................................. 103
Configuring a disabled interface ........................................................................................ 103
Using a DNS server ................................................................................................................ 103
DNS and DHCP ............................................................................................................... 104
DNS and static IP addresses .............................................................................................. 104
Getting there ............................................................................................................. 104
Adding the DNS domain name .......................................................................................... 104
Adding the DNS server ..................................................................................................... 104
Adding domain names to the DNS suffixes .......................................................................... 105
Editing a DNS server ........................................................................................................ 105
Editing a domain name in the DNS suffixes list ..................................................................... 105
Removing a DNS server .................................................................................................... 105
Removing a domain suffix from the DNS suffixes list .............................................................. 106
Setting up routing ................................................................................................................... 106
Adding routing information ................................................................................................ 106
Editing routing information ................................................................................................ 106
Deleting routing information .............................................................................................. 107
Configuring storage system communication ................................................................................ 107
Selecting the interface used by the SAN/iQ software ............................................................ 107
Updating the list of manager IP addresses ........................................................................... 108
Requirements ............................................................................................................. 108
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