Tiger Box Assembly Guide
Site Installation: Cabling Tiger Box
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Tiger Box also allows you to team the ports of a single 1/10GbE NIC (the Ethernet
switch or the client computer NIC must support link aggregation). Besides allowing a
network card to be accessed through a single IP address, and sparing you the need to
specify a separate IP address for each port, port teaming also can provide more
bandwidth through a single IP address.
Important:
It is advisable when planning the topology of the network, to
make sure that no client computer has more than one network connection
(through two or more IP addresses) to the appliance - for example, direct
connection through a 10GbE port and connection through an Ethernet switch.
Additionally, Tiger Box features an Admin network port, which is assigned a preset IP
address, which you cannot change. The Admin port is designed as a safety net,
providing you with access to web interface in case you misconfigure the appliance’s
network identification and fail to connect to it.
To connect a computer to the Public port:
1.
Plug one end of the network cable provided in the shipment in the port with label
Public port.
2.
Plug other end of the network cable in the LAN port of the computer, from which
you want to perform the initial setup.
Note:
If you intend to provide SAN computers with network communication to the
appliance through the Public port, once you perform the initial setup, you can
disconnect the computer, from which you have performed the setup, and connect
the Public port to an Ethernet switch, to which to connect all SAN computers.
To connect a SAN computer:
Note:
Your Tiger Box shipment doesn't include fiber optic and copper Fibre Channel
cables. The FC ports are with optical SFPs.
