Quantum DXi4700 User Manual page 294

Chapter 9: Configuration
System
Bonding Mode
LACP (Mode 4)
Active Backup (Mode 1)
4. Click Update to save the changes you made to the Bonding Details table. (Clicking Update does not
yet apply the new network settings to the DXi4700.)
5. Click Undo to revert to all current Bonding Details changes to the last update.
Configuring Interface Details
Under IP Address Configuration > Interface Details, configure jumbo Ethernet frame settings for each
port or device (see Figure 184
Figure 184: Network Page: Interface Details
1. If necessary, click the Show link to show the interface details table.
2. For each device, select the MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) frame size in the Jumbo Frame MTU
Size drop-down box.
1500 MTU
9000 MTU
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Description
This option (Link Aggregation Control Protocol) is based on the 802.3ad
IEEE standard for aggregating Ethernet ports. If the bonding algorithm is
set to LACP, the Ethernet switch ports must be configured in a 802.3ad
based Link Aggregation group (LAG) in LACP mode. The DXi frame
reception and transmission is controlled by the LACP between the
bonded ports and the Ethernet switch ports.
This option does not require switch configuration but may not provide the
same level of load balancing and performance as other bonding modes.
Only one port in the bond is active at a time. If the active port fails,
another port becomes active to take its place. Because only the MAC
address of the active port is visible to the Ethernet switch, the switch
does not require additional configuration.
below):
(Default) The standard (STD) MTU frame size of 1,500 bytes is used.
The jumbo MTU frame size of 9,000 bytes is used. (For best performance, make sure
the entire network path to the DXi is configured to use 9000 MTU.)
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