Tiger Box Assembly Guide
Initial Setup of the Appliance:
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you have manually specified. Should you decide to team the ports again, you will have
to specify the IP address manually again.
To team/unteam the ports of a network card:
1.
In the left pane of Tiger Store’s web interface, click System and then Network
Configuration.
The page lists all detected network cards, except the Public port and the Admin
port, if such is predefined.
2.
In the tile of a network card, do one of the following:
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Select Use as a team, and then click Apply.
The teamed ports are listed on the IP Configuration page, where you can assign an
IP address to them.
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Select “Use as individual ports”, and then click Apply.
The ports are listed on the IP Configuration page individually with their previous
IP addresses (the ones you have manually specified, or, if none has been specified,
the default ones).
Configure the IP Addresses of the Appliance
Your Tiger Box appliance can have any of the following network ports:
Public port —
1GbE port designed to connect the appliance to your corporate
network and provide it with access to shared resources and the Internet and also used
for metadata exchange between the appliance and Fibre Channel Tiger Clients.
1/10GbE ports —
designed to provide for both data and metadata traffic of Tiger
Clients connected to the appliance via 10GbE connection.
You must set an IP address for each network port through which the appliance is
connected to Tiger Clients (directly or via an Ethernet switch) - the Public port and all
other available network ports or port teams. The IP address you assign to each
network port must be on the same subnet as the Tiger Client that will communicate
with the appliance through this port. If computers in your facility are already
interconnected in a LAN, you can simply assign an IP address to the Public port in the
same subnet.
When a LAN client can reach the appliance both through the Public port and another
faster port, to ensure that the Tiger Client always mounts the shared volumes over the
faster connection, it is advisable to set the IP addresses of the faster ports of both the
appliance and the Tiger Client to be on a separate subnet of the LAN used by the Public
port. For more information refer to the “Assigning IP Addresses to Network Ports“
best practices topic in the latest version of the product release notes.
Important:
Whenever you introduce changes to the IP settings of Tiger Box, on all
Tiger Clients you may have to re-add the appliance to the storage servers list, in order
to ensure that they can connect to it.
IP Addresses Limitations
When assigning IP addresses to the network ports of Tiger Box, make sure that you
avoid the following IP addresses as they are either link-local addresses or are in use by
Tiger Box services:
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Link-local addresses in the range 169.254.0.0 - 169.254.255.255
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IPMI addresses in the range 1.1.1.0 - 1.1.1.255
