Users Guide

Network types
Using ASM, you can manage the following network types.
• Private LAN — Used to access network resources for functions such as vMotion traffic or heartbeat
communication.
• Public LAN — Used to access network resources for basic Networking activities.
NOTE: Private and public LANs are functionally identical in ASM. The purpose of offering both
labels is to help users categorize LANs based on functional use.
• SAN (iSCSI) — Used to manage storage-related traffic on an iSCSI network. If an IP address pool is
associated with the network, then ASM can use it to configure the iSCSI initiator IP address when
doing a SAN (iSCSI) boot. Static or DHCP.
• SAN (FCoE) — Used to identify storage-related traffic on a Fibre Channel Over Ethernet (FCoE)
network.
• Hypervisor Management — Used to identify the management network for a hypervisor or operating
system deployed on a server.
• Hypervisor Migration — Used to manage the network that you want to use for live migration. Live
migration allows you to move running virtual machines from one node of the failover cluster to
different node in the same cluster.
• Hypervisor Cluster Private — Used for private cluster heartbeat network communication.
• OS Installation — Allows static or DHCP network for OS imaging on servers.
NOTE: When the OS installation network is set to Static, OS installation is supported only for
installing Linux or ESXi on bare-metal systems with Intel NICs.
• Fileshare — Used to manage the NFS traffic in the NetApp Storage file system.
• Hardware Management — Used for out-of-band management of hardware infrastructure.
• FIP Snooping — Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Initialization Protocol (FIP) snooping provides
security mechanism that prevents unauthorized access and data transmission to a Fibre Channel (FC)
network.
The FIP VLAN Request is multicast to the destination MAC Address of ALL-FCF-MACs. The Source
Address for the VLAN Request is the ENode MAC and it is important to note that the frame is
transmitted without an 802.1Q (VLAN) tag
VLAN ID
A VLAN ID is a unique identifier that enables switching and routing of network traffic.
The VLAN ID must be a number between 1 and 4094. If using a flat network (no VLANs), type a value of 1.
Deleting a network
NOTE: You should not delete a network that is referenced in a template. This affects the services
that are deployed using this template.
To delete a network:
1. On the home page, click Settings, and then click Networks.
The Networks page is displayed.
2. Click the network that you want to delete, and then click Delete.
3. Click OK when the confirmation message is displayed.
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