The ReadyDATA provides two physical 1-Gb Ethernet interfaces and two physical 10-Gb Ethernet interfaces. The Ethernet interfaces can be used independently as individual interfaces or combined in a channel-bonded configuration using LACP and hash types 2 through 4. Channel bonding provides redundancy or increased throughput.
You can create and attach virtual NICs (VNICs) to individual and bonded interfaces. The primary benefit of virtual networking is that it allows the ReadyDATA to service many separate networks and to control how much bandwidth is used for each storage-related task.
For each VNIC, you can configure the following settings:
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VLAN membership
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Bandwidth limits
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IPv4 or IPv6 settings
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DNS servers
The following figure illustrates the use of VNICs in a ReadyDATA network configuration. (Throttle refers to the bandwidth limit.)
These are the default network settings before any configuration has occurred:
|
Item |
Default Setting |
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Physical Ethernet interface (eth1 and eth2) |
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MTU |
1500 |
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Speed (Mbps) |
1000 |
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Duplex |
Full |
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Bonding |
None |
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VNIC |
One attached to each interface (for example, vnic0 to eth0 and vnic1 to eth1) |
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Virtual NICs (vnic0 and vnic1) |
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|
MTU |
1500 |
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VLAN ID |
0 |
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Bandwidth limit |
None |
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TCP/IP |
IPv4 with DHCP enabled, and IPv6 disabled |
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DNS |
No server |
For more information on configuring network settings with your ReadyDATA storage system, see the following support articles: