Hp Storeall 9730 Network Layouts - HP StoreAll Series Installation Manual

For dual networking:
One IP address for the cluster network
One IP address per server to assign to the iLO interface
One IP address for the user network
One IP address for both the cluster and user network for the Fusion Manager GUI Virtual
Interface (VIF) and VIP IP address for both user and cluster network.
The IP addresses of your DNS servers
The IP addresses of your NTP servers

HP StoreAll 9730 network layouts

While installing the HP StoreAll OS Software, users can create either a flat network (also referred
to as a unified network) or dual network when using the HP StoreAll 9730 Storage system.
Flat Networking. In creating a flat network, the HP StoreAll OS Software creates one combined
cluster and user network. One single bonded interface (Bond0) is created used for all network
traffic and uses all available ports on an HP StoreAll node.
Dual Networking. In creating a dual network, HP StoreAll creates separate networks for cluster
and user traffic. In doing so, two bonded interfaces (Bond0 and Bond1) are created.
The HP StoreAll 9730 Storage system supports four networking layouts. The default is to use a flat
(single, unified) network for all cluster and user traffic. The other layouts provide a dedicated
management network, a user/cluster network, and, optionally, additional user networks. To use
a network layout other than the default, you must specify the number of networks needed to run
the 9730 Setup Wizard.
NOTE: Use layout 2 when adding an HP StoreAll 9730 Storage system to an existing 2-network
HP StoreAll cluster.
See the HP StoreAll Storage Network Best Practices Guide for detailed information about the
network layouts.
Table 8 Supported HP StoreAll 9730 Storage system network layouts
Layout Description
1 Unified network (default)
2 Dedicated management network
User/cluster network
3 Dedicated management network
User/cluster network
User2 network
4 Dedicated management network
User/cluster network
User2
User3
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Number of Network
networks name
1 Bond0
2 Bond0
Bond1
3 Bond0
Bond1
Bond2
4 Bond0
Bond1
Bond2
Bond3
Ethernet Bond speed
devices
eth0, eth3 10 GB
eth0, eth3 1 GB
eth1, eth2 9 GB
eth0, eth3 1 GB
eth1, eth2 4.5 GB
eth4, eth5 4.5 GB
eth0, eth3 1 GB
eth1, eth2 3.5 GB
eth4, eth5 3.5 GB
eth6, eth7 2 GB