HP StoreOnce Backup System Concepts and Configuration Guidelines (BB877-90913, November 2013)

Bonded port configurations (recommended)
If two network ports are configured within the same subnet they will be presented on a single IP
address and will be bonded using one of the bonding modes as described in Network bonding
modes.
This configuration is generally recommended for backup data performance and also for resiliency
of both data and management network connectivity. It should be noted that when using bonded
ports the full performance of both links will only be realized if multiple host servers are providing
data, otherwise data will still use only one network path from the single server.
Figure 12 Network configuration, bonded
32 Networking considerations