Chapter 2: Hardware Overview
StorNext G300 Connectivity
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StorNext G300 Gateway Appliance Hardware Guide
LAN/NAS Cable
Connections
The system also contains an iDRAC port and a dedicated service port. By
default, each StorNext G300 ships with bonded network interface:
Bond 0. All network ports, excluding the service and iDRAC ports, are
customer-configurable.
The default G300 network interface configuration is as follows:
• For the StorNext G301, the MDC network is always a bonded (Bond
0) network.
• For the StorNext G301, ports on LAN client network must be either
ALL bonded together (Bond 1) or ALL configured with individual
network interfaces, and NOT a combination of both. Physical ports 3
and 4 are dedicated to the MDC network. Ports 5 through 10 are
dedicated to the LAN client network. When bonded, the LAN client
network includes the on-board embedded Ethernet port 2 for a
total of 7 network ports.
• In addition to providing LAN access, the G300 is NAS-ready for SMB
or NFS access to different levels of tiered storage from StorNext
Storage Manager-managed tape archives to extended online object
storage including Lattus and Q-Cloud. NAS requires StorNext 5
Release 5.2.0.2 or later and a 10 GbE NIC in each Node. NAS is
enabled via the appliance
Service Menu
. Use of the NAS CLI is
documented in the
StorNext Appliances NAS Configuration Guide
(P/N 6-68284).
shows the customer-facing Ethernet ports on the StorNext
G301.
