HP StoreAll Storage Network Best Practices Guide

Contents
1 Overview of HP StoreAll Storage networking..................................................5
StoreAll components.................................................................................................................5
Networks.................................................................................................................................5
StoreAll node physical networking..............................................................................................6
StoreAll node failover................................................................................................................7
User VIF failover.....................................................................................................................13
Cluster network implications.....................................................................................................20
StoreAll node customer integration features................................................................................20
Additional user VIFs ..........................................................................................................21
VLAN tagging...................................................................................................................22
Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) trunking......................................................................26
Protocol usage.......................................................................................................................27
2 StoreAll 9730 platform networking..............................................................28
Network attached components.................................................................................................28
Onboard Administrators (OA)..............................................................................................28
Server blades....................................................................................................................28
Integrated Lights Out Controller (iLO)....................................................................................28
Interconnect Module: Virtual Connect (VC)............................................................................29
Interconnect Module: 6G SAS switch....................................................................................29
Recommended network topologies.......................................................................................29
Flat network...........................................................................................................................30
Motivation........................................................................................................................30
Logical description.............................................................................................................30
Physical description............................................................................................................32
Physical cabling.................................................................................................................35
Verifying the network configuration......................................................................................37
Dedicated management network..............................................................................................38
Motivation........................................................................................................................38
Logical description.............................................................................................................38
Physical description............................................................................................................40
Physical cabling.................................................................................................................43
Verifying the network configuration......................................................................................44
Additional physical user networks.............................................................................................46
Motivation........................................................................................................................46
Logical description.............................................................................................................46
Physical description............................................................................................................48
Physical cabling.................................................................................................................52
3 StoreAll 93xx/8x00 platform networking.....................................................55
Network attached components.................................................................................................55
Rack mounted server..........................................................................................................55
Integrated Lights Out Controller (iLO)....................................................................................55
MSA storage enclosure (network managed storage, 9320 only)...............................................55
Flat network...........................................................................................................................55
Motivation........................................................................................................................56
Logical description.............................................................................................................56
Physical description............................................................................................................58
Physical cabling.................................................................................................................60
Verifying the network configuration......................................................................................62
Available network topologies...................................................................................................63
Preferred bonding modes.........................................................................................................63
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