Bonding And Teaming; Setting Up The Network With Protectier - IBM TS7650G User Manual

Gigabit Ethernet
VLAN Virtual LAN is a software-defined LAN that groups network elements in
Host

Bonding and teaming

This section gives the technical background of bonding and teaming.
Technical background
The connectivity is based on a mechanism called teaming (usually in Microsoft
platforms) or bonding (usually on Linux/Unix platforms) in servers, and Link
aggregation (802.3ad) or Cisco Etherchannel in LAN switches. The purpose of these
mechanisms is to achieve higher bandwidth on the connection, as close as possible
to the multiplication of the port's bandwidth, along with redundancy between the
ports.

Setting up the network with ProtecTIER

This section describes the setup procedures for the ProtecTIER server.
ProtecTIER server configuration
ProtecTIER servers have several physical network ports. The number of ports vary
based on the ProtecTIER model. Ports might be used for management, replication,
and/or file system related operations from the hosts. Each port is designated to
one of these usages by assigning the physical ports to a virtual interface on
ProtecTIER.
When DD6 is configured with 1GB cards there are 4 virtual application interfaces
available. The configuration set up consists of:
v External
v Replication1
v Replication2
v Application1
v Application2
v Application3
v Application4
When DD6 is configured with 10GB cards there are 2 virtual application interfaces
available. The configuration set up conists of:
v External
v Replication1
v Replication2
v Application1
v Application2
Each one of the virtual interfaces can be assigned one or more physical network
ports. ProtecTIER's default setup already divides the physical ports between the
virtual interfaces; however, this can be changed in specific cases where required. If
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Ethernet that runs in a gigabit per second bandwidth.
the same broadcast domain.
A network element connected to the network. In ProtecTIER, the media
servers are referred to as hosts.
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