Nexio® NLE Gateway
Chapter 2
Installation Guide
Configuring
the NLE Gateway Hardware
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Configuring the NLE Gateway
Hardware
This chapter describes how to configure a Nexio NLE gateway hardware device. Here is a summary list of
configuration tasks you must perform.
Use the Nexio Config software tool to configure your NLE Gateway.
Confirm Network Connections including the following:
Physical connections.
IP Addresses.
Switch Settings.
Configuring the Intel NIC Cards
Configuring the Chelsio Adapter
Configuring Farad Storage
Upgrading an FCP Integration Gateway to an NLE Gateway
Confirm Network Connections
Physical Connections
Physical Ethernet infrastructures can be developed using three networks. The infrastructure must be
built up so that a single failure does not compromise both physical connections of any pair listed here:
UDP SAN1and UDP SAN2
Network switch A and B
Network switch C and D
Physical Ethernet infrastructures can be built using one of the following methods:
1.
In a case where the infrastructure has stand-alone switches, you should use separate switches for
each of the networks. If you need more than one switch per network, the switches supporting that
network must be connected via backplane UniStack stacking cables.
2.
In a case where the infrastructure has one enterprise class switch, you can use multiple blades or
separate blades (or blade sets) for each of the networks.
3.
In a case where the infrastructure has enterprise class switches with multiple blades, you should
separate each of the networks, one on each switch. In this case, blade usage does not matter, but
try to use the same blade numbers on each switch for easy identification.
In case 3, you can achieve an additional layer of recovery by populating each switch with enough blades
to support all the networks, as though you were building with a single switch (same as case 2). To do
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