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Figure 2-4 Network Setting
Table 2-2 Description
Parameter
Description
Network Mode
The following 4 modes are available.
● Multi-address
Multiple network card (hereinafter referred to as NIC) mode. You can
configure different network parameters for different NICs to achieve
high network reliability. For example, to configure hot spare, the NIC 2
can be used to set spare server IP. This can also be used in ISCSI
storage expansion solution. When setting ISCSI storage expansion,
NIC 1 can be used for communication, NIC 2 is reserved and NIC 3
and NIC 4 can be used for ISCSI storage.
● Fault tolerance
Multiple NICs share one IP. Normally, one of them works. When the
working NIC fails, another one will automatically take over the job to
ensure network stability.
● Load balancing
Multiple NICs share one IP and work at the same time to share the
network load, providing greater network capacity than the single NIC
mode. When one of them fails, the network load will be re-distributed
among the rest NICs to ensure network stability.
● Link Aggregation
Bind NICs so that all the bound NICs work at the same time and share
network load. For example, bind two NICs and set multi-address for
the other two NICs. Then the server has three IPs. The bandwidth of
the two bound NICs is 2K and the other two are 2K respectively. This
is applicable to stream forwarding, not storage.
Select Port
Set the default network port for the server. It is Network Port 1 by
default. You can modify the default port as needed.
After ten gigabit optical port is selected, only multi-address can be
available.
