Configuring Nic Failover; Configuring Automated Failover; Example Configuration - HP IBRIX X9000 Installation Manual

1. Add the VIF:
# ibrix_nic
2. Set up a standby server for each VIF:
# ibrix_nic
# ibrix_nic
# ibrix_nic
# ibrix_nic

Configuring NIC failover

NIC monitoring should be configured on VIFs that will be used by NFS, CIFS, FTP, or HTTP.
IMPORTANT:
configuring standby servers.
For example:
# ibric_nic
# ibric_nic
# ibric_nic
# ibric_nic

Configuring automated failover

To enable automated failover for your file serving nodes, execute the following command:
ibrix_server —m [-h SERVERNAME]

Example configuration

This example uses two nodes, ib50-81 and ib50-82. These nodes are backups for each other,
forming a backup pair.
[root@ib50-80 ~]# ibrix_server -l
Segment Servers
===============
SERVER_NAME
-----------
ib50-81
ib50-82
All VIFs on ib50-81 have backup (standby) VIFs on ib50-82. Similarly, all VIFs on ib50-82
have backup (standby) VIFs on ib50-81. NFS, CIFS, FTP, and HTTP clients can connect to bond0:1
on either host. If necessary, the selected server will fail over to bond0:2 on the opposite host.
X9000 clients could connect to bond1 on either host, as these clients do not support or require
NIC failover. (The following sample output shows only the relevant fields.)
a -n bond0:2
b H node1/bond0:1,node2/bond0:2
b H node2/bond0:1,node1/bond0:2
b H node3/bond0:1,node4/bond0:2
b H node4/bond0:1,node3/bond0:2
When configuring NIC monitoring, use the same backup pairs that you used when
m -h node1 -A node2/bond0:1
m -h node2 -A node1/bond0:1
m -h node3 -A node4/bond0:1
m -h node4 -A node3/bond0:1
BACKUP STATE
------- ------------
ib50-82 Up
ib50-81 Up
h node1,node2,node3,node4
HA ID
--- ------------------------------------
on 132cf61a-d25b-40f8-890e-e97363ae0d0b
on 7d258451-4455-484d-bf80-75c94d17121d
GROUP
-----
servers
servers
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