HP StoreVirtual 4000 Storage - Manual (Page 4)

To reconfigure RAID...........................................................................................................33
Reconfiguring RAID for a P4800 G2 with 2 TB drives.............................................................33
Monitoring RAID status............................................................................................................34
Data reads and writes and RAID status.................................................................................34
Data redundancy and RAID status........................................................................................34
Managing disks.....................................................................................................................35
Getting there.....................................................................................................................35
Reading the disk report on the Disk Setup tab........................................................................35
Verifying disk status............................................................................................................37
Viewing disk status for the VSA.......................................................................................37
Viewing disk status for the HP P4500 G2.........................................................................37
Viewing disk status for the HP P4300 G2.........................................................................38
Viewing disk status for the P4800 G2..............................................................................39
Viewing disk status for the P4900 G2 .............................................................................39
Viewing disk status for the HP StoreVirtual 4130................................................................40
Viewing disk status for the HP StoreVirtual 4330................................................................41
Viewing the disk status for the HP StoreVirtual 4530...........................................................41
Viewing the disk status for the HP StoreVirtual 4630..........................................................42
Viewing the disk status for the HP StoreVirtual 4730...........................................................43
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 ......................................................................47
Troubleshooting......................................................................................................................48
4 Managing the network..............................................................................49
Network best practices............................................................................................................49
Changing network configurations.............................................................................................50
Managing settings on network interfaces...................................................................................50
TCP status tab....................................................................................................................50
Changing speed and duplex settings....................................................................................51
Changing NIC frame size...................................................................................................52
Jumbo frames...............................................................................................................52
Editing the NIC frame size..............................................................................................53
Changing NIC flow control.................................................................................................53
The TCP/IP tab.......................................................................................................................54
Identifying the network interfaces.........................................................................................54
Pinging an IP address.........................................................................................................54
To ping an IP address....................................................................................................55
Configuring the IP address manually.........................................................................................55
Using DHCP..........................................................................................................................55
Configuring network interface bonds.........................................................................................56
Bonding with 10 GbE interfaces..........................................................................................56
Supported bonds with 10 GbE........................................................................................57
Unsupported bonds with 10 GbE....................................................................................58
IP address for NIC bonds....................................................................................................58
NIC bonding and speed, duplex, frame size, and flow control settings......................................58
How Active-Passive bonding works.......................................................................................59
Physical and logical interfaces........................................................................................59
Which physical interface is preferred...............................................................................60
Summary of NIC status during failover.............................................................................60
Example network cabling topologies with Active-Passive.....................................................60
How link aggregation dynamic mode bonding works.............................................................62
Which physical interface is preferred...............................................................................62
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