Quick Operation Guide of DS-A81 Series Storage System
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3. Select the bonding mode from the drop-down list to meet the actual needs, and then click
OK to save the settings.
Figure 4. 4 Modify NIC Bonding Mode
Restart the system after the NIC bonding mode is modified to activate the new settings.
4.2.3 Configuring Multi-NIC Bonding
Purpose:
Multi-NIC bonding is supported by the storage system, to realize the functionalities such as data
transmission bandwidth expansion, fault-tolerance, flow control, etc. Only the data NICs can be
Steps:
1. On the Network Management interface, select the NICs from the NIC List for bonding.
Figure 4. 5 NIC Information
2. Click Create Bonding in the NIC information field, and a dialog box pops up.
Figure 4. 6 Bond Selected NICs
3. Click OK to confirm the settings. It takes a few seconds to bond the selected NICs, and a
message box will pop up after the NIC bonding is complete.
Please stop the data access to the storage system during NIC bonding process in case of data loss.
The IP address of the first data NIC will be adopted for the bond
4.2.4 Deleting Multi-NIC Bonding
Steps: