Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI/aSV)

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Storage Network Interface

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Storage network interface will be used to connect the SAN between 2 nodes. It will be used to sync the data and the storage resource across nodes will be access through this interface.

  1. Navigate to Nodes > Communication Interfaces > Storage Network Interface, and select Settings.

  1. Specify Interface Mode:

Dedicated Mode : Use a separate physical NIC as storage network interface for
better performance and stable bandwidth.

Shared Mode : Use one physical interface as storage network interface and logical interfaces of other functions when number of physical interfaces are insufficient.

Precautions:

• It is required to use aggregate interface for Shared Mode and the member
interface must be 10G.

• Currently only 2 types of NIC support Shared Mode storage network interface which are Mellanox CX4 and Intel X710.

• Changing interface mode required to power off all VM before the operation.


  1. Specify Deployment Mode for the storage network interface.
  1. Link aggregation disabled

• Select this option when only 1 physical NIC available for Storage
Network Interface.

• If there are only two nodes, simply use a cable to connect one
another, without using any switch.

• Drawbacks: Storage on the node will be inaccessible if one link fails.

  1. Link aggregation with one switch

• Select this option when both physical NIC connected to one switch.

• Select this option when connecting to a stack switch.

  1. Link aggregation with two switches

• Select this option when the physical NICs connected to different
switch.

• If there are only two nodes, simply use a cable to connect one
another, without using any switch.

Changing deployment mode for storage network interface required all VM/ NFV to be powered off.

  1. Lastly, specify the interface used for storage network and configure the
    corresponding IP address for communication.


Each node communicates with another one using two physical interfaces which are connected to a same layer 2 switch. Storage network interfaces will be aggregated automatically without the need to configure link aggregation on switch. After the deployment mode is selected, you need to deploy the network according to the digram illustrating deployment architecture of storage area network, and then select storage network interface for each node and configure IP address for that interface.

Test Connectivity: This allow to test whether the storage network has been isolated from other network.