Using DHCP
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86
To set IP address using DHCP
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86
Configuring network interface bonds
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87
Best practices
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88
IP address for NIC bonds
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88
NIC bonding and speed, duplex, frame size, and flow control settings
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88
How Active-Passive works
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88
Physical and logical interfaces
.......................................................................................
89
Requirements for Active-Passive
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89
Which physical interface is preferred
..............................................................................
89
Summary of NIC status during failover
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90
Example network cabling topologies with Active-Passive
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90
How link aggregation dynamic mode works
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92
Requirements for link aggregation dynamic mode
............................................................
92
Which physical interface is preferred
..............................................................................
93
Which physical interface is active
..................................................................................
93
Summary of NIC states during failover
...........................................................................
93
Example network cabling topologies with link aggregation dynamic mode
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94
How Adaptive Load Balancing works
...................................................................................
94
Requirements for Adaptive Load Balancing
......................................................................
94
Which physical interface is preferred
..............................................................................
94
Which physical interface is active
..................................................................................
95
Summary of NIC states during failover
...........................................................................
95
Example network cabling topologies with Adaptive Load Balancing
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95
Creating a NIC bond
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96
Prerequisites
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96
Bond guidelines
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96
Creating the bond
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97
Verify communication setting for new bond
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99
Viewing the status of a NIC bond
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99
Deleting a NIC bond
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101
Verify NIC settings and communication settings after deleting a bond
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102
Disabling a network interface
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102
Disabling a network interface
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103
If the storage system is in a management group
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103
Configuring a disabled interface
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103
Using a DNS server
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103
DNS and DHCP
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104
DNS and static IP addresses
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104
Getting there
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104
Adding the DNS domain name
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104
Adding the DNS server
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104
Adding domain names to the DNS suffixes
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105
Editing a DNS server
........................................................................................................
105
Editing a domain name in the DNS suffixes list
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105
Removing a DNS server
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105
Removing a domain suffix from the DNS suffixes list
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106
Setting up routing
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106
Adding routing information
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106
Editing routing information
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106
Deleting routing information
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107
Configuring storage system communication
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107
Selecting the interface used by the SAN/iQ software
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107
Updating the list of manager IP addresses
...........................................................................
108
Requirements
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108
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