Setup Guide

Best Practices 67
Best Practices
High Availability Configuration and IP Storage
Traffic Segregation
• High Availability — To provide high availability for storage traffic,
use Citrix
®
XenCenter
®
to create a network interface bond using
two NIC ports.
•
IP Storage Traffic Segregation — To segregate IP storage traffic, create a
new host interface. In XenCenter, click on the host and select
Management Interfaces . Create a new interface and configure the
IP settings, so that the storage management interface is on a separate
subnet than the host management interface. To segregate IP storage traffic
from host management traffic, the storage interface must be on a separate
subnet than the host management interface.
NOTE: As a best practice, it is recommended to use a static IP address for the host
management and storage interface.