Creating A Bonded Vif; Configuring Backup Servers; Configuring Nic Failover - HP StoreAll 9730 Administrator's Manual

3. To assign the IFNAME a default route for the parent cluster bond and the user VIFS
assigned to FSNs for use with SMB/NFS, enter the following ibrix_nic command at
the command prompt:
# ibrix_nic -r -n IFNAME -h HOSTNAME-A -R <ROUTE_IP>
4. Configure backup monitoring, as described in

Creating a bonded VIF

NOTE: The examples in this chapter use the unified network and create a bonded VIF on bond0.
If your cluster uses a different network layout, create the bonded VIF on a user network bond such
as bond1.
Use the following procedure to create a bonded VIF (bond0:1 in this example):
1. If high availability (automated failover) is configured on the servers, disable it. Run the following
command on the Fusion Manager:
# ibrix_server -m -U
2. Identify the bond0:1 VIF:
# ibrix_nic -a -n bond0:1 -h node1,node2,node3,node4
3. Assign an IP address to the bond1:1 VIFs on each node. In the command, -I specifies the
IP address, -M specifies the netmask, and -B specifies the broadcast address:
# ibrix_nic -c -n bond0:1 -h node1 -I 16.123.200.201 -M 255.255.255.0 -B 16.123.200.255
# ibrix_nic -c -n bond0:1 -h node2 -I 16.123.200.202 -M 255.255.255.0 -B 16.123.200.255
# ibrix_nic -c -n bond0:1 -h node3 -I 16.123.200.203 -M 255.255.255.0 -B 16.123.200.255
# ibrix_nic -c -n bond0:1 -h node4 -I 16.123.200.204 -M 255.255.255.0 -B 16.123.200.255

Configuring backup servers

The servers in the cluster are configured in backup pairs. If this step was not done when your cluster
was installed, assign backup servers for the bond0:1 interface. In the following example, node1
is the backup for node2, node2 is the backup for node1, node3 is the backup for node4, and
node4 is the backup for node3.
1. Add the VIF:
# ibrix_nic -a -n bond0:2 -h node1,node2,node3,node4
2. Set up a backup server for each VIF:
# ibrix_nic -b -H node1/bond0:1,node2/bond0:2
# ibrix_nic -b -H node2/bond0:1,node1/bond0:2
# ibrix_nic -b -H node3/bond0:1,node4/bond0:2
# ibrix_nic -b -H node4/bond0:1,node3/bond0:2

Configuring NIC failover

NIC monitoring should be configured on VIFs that will be used by NFS, SMB, FTP, or HTTP.
IMPORTANT:
configuring standby servers.
50 Configuring virtual interfaces for client access
When configuring NIC monitoring, use the same backup pairs that you used when
"Configuring backup servers" (page 50).