9.5.01 HP P4000 SAN Solution User Guide (AX696-96168, February 2012)

NOTE: The VSA does not support changing flow control settings.
Requirements
• These settings must be configured before creating NIC bonds.
• All NICs should have (or must have, if they are bonded) the same flow control settings. You
can bond NICs with different flow control settings. However, the bond changes both NICs to
the same flow control settings, using the settings of the preferred NIC.
• Flow control cannot be changed when the port is disabled.
Changing NIC flow control settings
To change NIC flow control settings:
1. In the navigation window, select a storage system, and log in.
2. Open the tree, and select the TCP/IP Network category.
3. Select the TCP Status tab.
4. Select the interface to edit.
5. Click TCP Status Tasks, and select Edit.
6. Change the flow control setting on the Edit window.
7. Click OK.
8. Repeat steps 4 through 7 for all the NICs you want to change .
On the TCP Status tab window, for bonded NICs, the NIC flow control column shows the flow
control settings for the physical NICs, and the bond0 as blank. Flow control is enabled and working
in this case
The TCP/IP tab
Lists the network interfaces on the storage system. On the TCP/IP tab, you can bond interfaces,
disable an interface, configure an IP address, and ping servers from the storage system.
The TCP/IP tab
Identifying the network interfaces
A storage system comes with two or four Ethernet interfaces. To use either interface, you must
connect an Ethernet cable to one of the ports and configure the interface in the Configuration
Interface or the CMC. These ports are named and labeled on the back of the storage system.
Table 15 (page 54) lists the methods to identify the NICs. You can work with the NICs in the CMC
or through the Configuration Interface which is accessed through the storage system’s serial port,
as described in “Using the Configuration Interface” (page 235).
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