Verifying The Bond; Changing The Vip If Required; Preparing Your Host Server To Be 10 Gbe Capable - HP StorageWorks P4000 Series Manual
1 gbe to 10 gbe migration guide
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- Release notes (18 pages)
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9.
Press Ctrl and select both the eth2 and eth3 interfaces.
10.
Right-click and select New Bond. The Create Bond Configuration window opens.
11.
Under Type, select Adaptive Load Balancing (ALB) and click OK. A confirmation prompt opens.
12.
Click OK to confirm the TCP/IP settings change.
13.
Search for the storage node using the Find function in the CMC.
14.
Log in to the management group (if necessary).
15.
Log in to the storage node.
Verifying the bond
1.
Verify on the TCP/IP tab window that the bond was created successfully.
2.
Switch to the Communication tab and verify that the SAN/iQ Interface is set to communicate via
the ALB bond interface that you just created.
Changing the VIP if required
1.
Select the cluster node and select the ISCSI tab.
2.
Select the existing VIP address, click ISCSI Tasks and select Edit VIP & Subnet mask.
3.
Change the VIP to a valid VIP for the new bond/network environment.
4.
Add the bond IP address to the Find by Node IP or Hostname list and rediscover this storage
node.
NOTE:
Delete the existing IP address that was being used to discover this storage node.
5.
The Storage Server service on this storage node will restart to allow the networking changes to
take effect. Wait for the Storage Server to become Normal before proceeding.
6.
Navigate to the storage node's TCP/IP Network category.
7.
Select the Communication tab to verify that the Manager IP Addresses are correctly updated. If
not, click Communication Tasks and select Update Manager IP Addresses.
At this point, the SAN is ready to communicate via the bonded 10 GbE interface.
Preparing your host server to be 10 GbE capable
While reconnecting to the iSCSI volumes, configure the iSCSI initiator on the host server to communicate
via the 10 GbE interface for all iSCSI communication.
You have successfully upgraded your existing SAN to 10 GbE.
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Instructions for migrating bonded interfaces in a SAN cluster from 1 GbE to 10 GbE Ethernet
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