HP StoreOnce 6500 Backup Installation Planning and Preparation Guide

Do you have sufficient physical network connections for your configuration? This depends upon
the way that you configure each portset in the network configuration. See also Physical Ethernet
connection requirements (page 20).
4.
1. How many 1GbE ports will be connected on each node (0, 2 or 4)?......................
2. How many 10GbE ports will be connected on each node (0 or 2)?......................
3. How many nodes are you configuring? ...........
4. Total connections required = (1GbE ports + 10 GbE ports) x number of nodes ...........
5. The recommendation is for two switches for each network to which you are connecting.
Number of switches per network.................................................................
How are portsets to be configured?5.
• Portset 1:
What type of data will it carry (Management, Data or Both)?...........................
Which network ports will it use: 1GbE or 10GbE?.............................
If 1GbE, which combination of eth0, eth1, eth2, eth3 ports will be bonded?.....................
What network bonding mode should be used?................
Should it be VLAN enabled?............
• Portset 2:
What type of data will it carry (Management, Data or Both)?...........................
Which network ports will it use: 1GbE or 10GbE?.............................
If 1GbE, which combination of eth0, eth1, eth2, eth3 ports will be bonded?.....................
What network bonding mode should be used?................
Should it be VLAN enabled?............
• Portset 3:
What type of data will it carry (Management, Data or Both)?...........................
Which network ports will it use: 1GbE or 10GbE?.............................
If 1GbE, which combination of eth0, eth1, eth2, eth3 ports will be bonded?.....................
What network bonding mode should be used?................
Should it be VLAN enabled?............
NOTE: Bonding mode may be 1 = Active/Backup; 4 = Dynamic Link Aggregation; or 6 = Active
Load Balancing.
Have you defined how subnets are to be configured on each portset? ................
Use the tables in the next sub-section to provide portset and IP address details for each subnet.
6.
NOTE: One subnet is required for Management and it must be connected to a portset that is not
VLAN enabled. This subnet may also be used for Data.
Data subnets are supported on both physical and virtual LANs, but they cannot be connected to
the same portset (group of physical ports). The recommendation is to create at least one physical
LAN at installation so that the configuration can be tested.
• Physical subnets: A maximum of two Data-only subnets is supported. If you wish to configure
VLANs, configure no more than one physical Data subnet.
• VLAN subnets: A maximum of 128 Data-only VLAN subnets may be configured.
10 Checklists for completion prior to installation