HP Storevirtual 4000 White Paper

Table of contents
Overview ................................................................................................................................................................................... 2
Introduction .............................................................................................................................................................................. 3
Storage node ............................................................................................................................................................................ 4
10GbE connectivity ............................................................................................................................................................. 5
Interface speed and duplex settings ............................................................................................................................... 5
Flow control ......................................................................................................................................................................... 5
Jumbo frames ...................................................................................................................................................................... 6
Network bonding ................................................................................................................................................................. 6
Separate management networks .................................................................................................................................... 9
IP addressing ...................................................................................................................................................................... 10
Network switching ................................................................................................................................................................. 11
Port buering cache ......................................................................................................................................................... 11
Switching methodology .................................................................................................................................................. 11
Flow control ........................................................................................................................................................................ 12
Jumbo frames .................................................................................................................................................................... 12
VLAN ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 13
Spanning Tree Protocol ................................................................................................................................................... 13
Unicast storm control ....................................................................................................................................................... 14
Recommended network switches for HP StoreVirtual 4000 Storage .................................................................... 14
Host conguration ................................................................................................................................................................. 16
Jumbo frames .................................................................................................................................................................... 16
Flow control ........................................................................................................................................................................16
Multipathing I/O ................................................................................................................................................................. 17
MPIO for VMware vSphere .............................................................................................................................................. 17
MPIO for Microsoft Windows Server ............................................................................................................................. 17
Multi-site cluster networking requirements ....................................................................................................................18
Remote Copy ......................................................................................................................................................................... 19
Asynchronous replication ...............................................................................................................................................20
Network bandwidth planning .........................................................................................................................................20
Calculate bandwidth usage ............................................................................................................................................21
Remote Copy tuning .........................................................................................................................................................23
Conclusion ............................................................................................................................................................................... 24
Technical white paper
HP StoreVirtual 4000 Storage
Network design considerations and best practices

HP Storevirtual 4000 Specifications

General

Model	HP StoreVirtual 4000
Category	Storage
Form Factor	2U
Controller	Dual controllers
Hard Drives Supported	SAS, SATA
Number of Hard Drives Supported	Up to 24
Drive Bays	24
Processor	Intel Xeon
Power Supply	Redundant Power Supplies
Warranty	3 years
RAID Levels	0, 1, 5, 6, 10
Connectivity	iSCSI
Supported Protocols	iSCSI, NFS, CIFS
Drive Types Supported	SAS, SATA, SSD
Network Interfaces	4 x 1GbE
Management Software	HP StoreVirtual Central Management Console
Operating System	LeftHand OS