HP StoreVirtual 4000 User Manual page 4

To reconfigure RAID...........................................................................................................33
Configuring RAID for a P4800 G2 with 2 TB drives................................................................33
Monitoring RAID status............................................................................................................34
Data reads and writes and RAID status.................................................................................34
Data redundancy and RAID status........................................................................................34
Managing disks.....................................................................................................................35
Getting there.....................................................................................................................35
Reading the disk report on the Disk Setup tab........................................................................35
Verifying disk status............................................................................................................37
Viewing disk status for the VSA.......................................................................................37
Viewing disk status for the HP P4500 G2.........................................................................37
Viewing disk status for the HP P4300 G2.........................................................................38
Viewing disk status for the P4800 G2..............................................................................39
Viewing disk status for the HP P4900 G2 ........................................................................39
Viewing disk status for the HP LeftHand 4130....................................................................40
Viewing disk status for the HP LeftHand 4330...................................................................41
Replacing a disk.....................................................................................................................41
Using Repair Storage System...............................................................................................42
Replacing disks in hot-swap storage systems..........................................................................42
Preparing for a disk replacement.........................................................................................42
Replacing a disk in a hot-swap storage system ......................................................................43
4 Managing the network..............................................................................45
Network best practices............................................................................................................45
Changing network configurations.............................................................................................46
Managing settings on network interfaces...................................................................................46
TCP status tab....................................................................................................................46
Changing speed and duplex settings....................................................................................47
Changing NIC frame size...................................................................................................48
Jumbo frames...............................................................................................................48
Editing the NIC frame size..............................................................................................49
Changing NIC flow control.................................................................................................49
The TCP/IP tab.......................................................................................................................50
Identifying the network interfaces.........................................................................................50
Pinging an IP address.........................................................................................................50
To ping an IP address....................................................................................................50
Configuring the IP address manually.........................................................................................51
Using DHCP..........................................................................................................................51
Configuring network interface bonds.........................................................................................51
Bonding with 10 GbE interfaces..........................................................................................52
Supported bonds with 10 GbE........................................................................................53
Unsupported bonds with 10 GbE....................................................................................53
IP address for NIC bonds....................................................................................................53
NIC bonding and speed, duplex, frame size, and flow control settings......................................53
How Active-Passive bonding works.......................................................................................54
Physical and logical interfaces........................................................................................54
Which physical interface is preferred...............................................................................55
Summary of NIC status during failover.............................................................................55
Example network cabling topologies with Active-Passive.....................................................56
How link aggregation dynamic mode bonding works.............................................................57
Which physical interface is preferred...............................................................................57
Which physical interface is active....................................................................................58
Summary of NIC states during failover.............................................................................58
Example network cabling topologies with link aggregation dynamic mode...........................58
How Adaptive Load Balancing works ..................................................................................59
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