Configuring Network Interfaces for Replication
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Before configuring for replication, you must first complete the normal 7700 FSP installation using
the following best practices:
1.
Ensure that you upgrade the 7700 FSP Controllers in the 7700 FSP storage cluster to the
latest Concerto OS versions available (the RPM update unless starting at 7.5.0 requires either
a USB or network install).
2.
Power on the 7700 FSP Controllers after the upgrade and configure the hostname and
network.
3.
You can install or upgrade Symphony at any time in the process.
4.
Add all 7700 FSP Controllers and storage shelves to one Symphony instance.
Replication Network Information
In this section, you need to determine the active and desired LAN and WAN link speeds, usage,
and the bandwidth limits, as appropriate for the installed environment.
Performance
Table C.1 lists and describes the TCP ports that are used for replication operations. The replication
process uses the TCP ports listed in this table to handle one-way incoming requests. The reply to
each of these requests is sent back using a dynamic port number. Network firewalls must be
configured to allow access through these TCP ports for successful communications.
Note:
Other ICMP, UDP, and other TCP ports will also be used for inspection and diagnostics
purposes (for example,
ping
and
traceroute
; and
iperf
uses TCP 5001).
Port
Source
Used By
Description
11576
Concerto device
•
CLI from SAN client
•
Concerto
Management Console
•
IMA
•
MemRecover
•
Snapshot Director
•
VMware
•
Tiebreaker server
(RPC)
Secure RPC communication port used for
sending requests to the configuration
management module on the server.
11577
•
Replication
source server
•
Replica
server
•
Replica server
•
Replication source
server
(Replication location/IOCore)
Communication port used to send
replication data. This port is only open while
replication is being performed. Otherwise,
this port remains closed.
Table C.1 TCP Ports and Replication