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

4 Expanding an existing cluster

When adding a new installation to an existing cluster, HP recommends that the new installation

conform to the network topology of the existing cluster.

Since earlier IBRIX platforms were often shipped with dedicated ProCurve switches for connecting

the management components, this implies that the new system should implement the dedicated

management network topology and should use the existing ProCurve switches for its management

network.

For example, Figures 27–29 show the logical, physical, and cabling views for an IBRIX 9730 that

is integrated with an existing 9720 installation. The existing ProCurve switches are labeled in the

figures to make the overlap between the IBRIX 9730 and IBRIX 9720 more obvious.

Figure 27 IBRIX 9720 expansion with 9730 — logical network