6.2 HP IBRIX 9000 Storage Network Best Practices Guide (TA768-96069, December 2012)

Logical description
Figure 16 IBRIX 9730 additional physical user networks — logical view
Figure 16 illustrates a configuration with two additional user networks. The configuration is similar
to the dedicated management network, but additional bonded interfaces (bond2 and bond3) are
added to support the connections to two additional physical networks. The additional networks
are used for the attachment of file clients. (If there is only one additional user network, the “bond
3” connections would be eliminated.)
In Figure 16, the sample IP addresses were chosen to illustrate the relationship between components
and subnets. The subnet mask and IP address assignments shown here are for illustration purposes
only. Customer address allocation schemes can be done differently.
At the logical layer, all FSN access to the network is done through a bond interface to allow the
underlying physical layer to implement multiple pathways to the network. The next section describes
how the bond interfaces map to the underlying physical interfaces.
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