HP LeftHand P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance Software - Manual (Page 4)

RAID devices by RAID type.................................................................................................34
Planning the RAID configuration...............................................................................................34
Data protection..................................................................................................................34
Using disk RAID with Network RAID in a cluster.....................................................................35
Mixing RAID configurations.................................................................................................36
Setting RAID rebuild rate.........................................................................................................36
General guidelines for setting the RAID rebuild rate................................................................36
Setting the RAID rebuild rate...............................................................................................36
Reconfiguring RAID.................................................................................................................37
To reconfigure RAID...........................................................................................................37
Configuring RAID for a P4800 G2 with 2 TB drives................................................................37
Monitoring RAID status............................................................................................................38
Data reads and writes and RAID status.................................................................................38
Data redundancy and RAID status........................................................................................38
Managing disks.....................................................................................................................39
Getting there.....................................................................................................................39
Reading the disk report on the Disk Setup tab........................................................................39
Verifying disk status............................................................................................................41
Replacing a disk.....................................................................................................................44
Using Repair Storage System...............................................................................................45
Replacing disks in hot-swap storage systems..........................................................................45
Preparing for a disk replacement.........................................................................................46
Replacing a disk in a hot-swap storage system ......................................................................46
4 Managing the network..............................................................................48
Network best practices............................................................................................................48
Changing network configurations.............................................................................................49
Managing settings on network interfaces...................................................................................50
TCP status tab....................................................................................................................50
Changing speed and duplex settings....................................................................................50
Changing NIC frame size...................................................................................................51
Changing NIC flow control.................................................................................................52
The TCP/IP tab.......................................................................................................................53
Identifying the network interfaces.........................................................................................53
Pinging an IP address.........................................................................................................54
Configuring the IP address manually.........................................................................................54
Using DHCP..........................................................................................................................55
Configuring network interface bonds.........................................................................................55
Bonding with 10 GbE interfaces..........................................................................................56
IP address for NIC bonds....................................................................................................57
NIC bonding and speed, duplex, frame size, and flow control settings......................................57
How Active-Passive bonding works.......................................................................................57
How link aggregation dynamic mode bonding works.............................................................61
How Adaptive Load Balancing works ..................................................................................63
Creating a NIC bond.........................................................................................................65
Viewing the status of a NIC bond........................................................................................68
Deleting a NIC bond..........................................................................................................69
Disabling a network interface...................................................................................................71
Configuring a disabled interface..........................................................................................72
Using a DNS server................................................................................................................72
DNS and DHCP................................................................................................................72
DNS and static IP addresses................................................................................................72
Adding the DNS domain name...........................................................................................72
Adding the DNS server......................................................................................................72
Adding domain names to the DNS suffixes............................................................................73
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