6.2 HP IBRIX 9000 Storage Network Best Practices Guide (TA768-96069, December 2012)

Figure 26 IBRIX 93xx unified network — MSA enclosure cabling
The minimum cabling required for attachment of a single MSA enclosure to the management
network consists of the two patch cables shown in Figure 26. Each SAS controller has its own
management port that must be connected to the customer provided edge switch for the management
subnet.
HP IBRIX 93xx 6.2 QR-DVD.iso installation network defaults
By default, the 6.2 QR-DVD.iso installation will automatically detect a single 10 Gb NIC or
dual 10 Gb NICS and place all available NIC ports into Bond0 and configure for default bonding
mode =1. There is support for configuring bonding modes 4 or 6 via the F2 Advanced Network
Configuration menu during the installation. However, please note that with version 6.2, HP
recommends mode =1 for a single 10 Gb NIC configuration and mode =4 for a dual 10 Gb NIC
configuration.
If the installation detects a 1 Gb Quad port Interface card, then all 4 ports will be placed into
Bond0 and configured for default bonding mode =6. Again, if mode 4 is desired, use the F2
Advanced Network Configuration menu during the installation to change the bonding mode to 4
(LACP). Remember, your network administrator will be responsible for configuring all customer
edge switches for LACP to support mode 4 bonding.
NOTE: Only mode 1 bonding is qualified for use with HP IBRIX 93xx 6.2, RHEL5.5 with VLAN
Tagging.
Table 19 IBRIX 93xx unified network configuration — cabling summary
DestinationOriginConnection
Customer Edge Switch – User/Cluster
subnet
Rear of Server 1, Expansion slot, eth
4 SFP connector
Server 1, Datapath 1
Customer Edge Switch – User/Cluster
subnet
Rear of Server 1, Expansion slot, eth
5 SFP connector
Server 1, Datapath 2
Customer Edge Switch – Management
subnet
Rear of Server 1, Built-in iLO RJ-45
connector
Server 1, iLO
Customer Edge Switch – User/Cluster
subnet
Rear of Server 2, Expansion slot, eth
4 SFP connector
Server 2, Datapath 1
60 IBRIX 93xx platform networking