HPE StoreVirtual 3200

• Bond type
• For each controller, static IP addresses that are available on the network: two for iSCSI, one for Fibre
Channel per bond
• Subnet mask
Transport servers
Storage systems that use iSCSI for data connectivity have a total of four transport servers. There are two
transport servers on each bonded interface used for data traffic.
Fibre Channel-based systems have a total of four transport servers. There is one transport server for
each physical interface.
Bond types
The following types of bonding are supported with the HPE StoreVirtual 3200 Storage System:
• ALB (default) – Can only be created between two or four interfaces that have the same speed. No
additional network switch configuration is required. There can be a maximum of two 10GbE/10GBase-
T interfaces or four 1GbE interfaces in the same bond.
• Active-Passive – Active-passive bonding uses one network path as active and automatically fails over
to the other path in the event of a path failure. Active-passive bonding can only be created between
two or four interfaces. The system supports two 10GbE/10GBase-T interfaces in a bond and two
1GbE interfaces in a bond. No additional network switch configuration is required.
• Link aggregation (802.3ad) – Link aggregation bonds provide a single logical interface with the sum of
the bandwidth of the physical network interfaces. Link aggregation bonds can only be created between
two or more interfaces that have the same speed. All the network switches involved with the 802.3ad
bond must have the bonded ports connected to the same backplane. More network switch
configuration is required. The system supports a maximum of two 10GbE/10GBase-T interfaces or
four 1GbE interfaces in the same bond.
Bonded interfaces for supported controller configurations
The following sections illustrate bonding set up for each supported controller configuration.
Figure 23: Controller with no option card
1. Built-in 1G ports
The two built-in 1G ports are bonded and share IPv4 address settings in the same subnet.
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