Dell DR4100 Best Practices Manual page 20

Scenario 1: Leverage separate interfaces for management, replication and backup traffic
6.3.1.1
Sarah, a network administrator, has an office located in Boston and another located in New York (See Figure 3). At each
office she has a DR appliance and wishes to configure separate interfaces for management, backup and replication
traffic. Her desired configuration is as follows:
• Use bond0 for management.
• Use dedicated 1GB interface for replication traffic.
• Use dedicated 2x 10GB bonded interfaces for backup traffic.
Figure 3
Note: Bond0 should be used for management traffic as it contains the default route and will allow for management of
the device from all accessible subnets. For Backup and Replication Traffic, static routes should be added to allow
communication between the devices.
Hardware configuration
• DR1 – 2x 1GB interfaces and bond0 as 2x 10GB interfaces
• DR2 – 2x 1GB interfaces and 2x 10GB interfaces
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Scenario 1 topology