SANRAD manual Configuring the V-Switch with a Single IP Routing Path, Sample Configurations 263

Configuring the V-Switch with a Single IP

Routing Path

You have just purchased a V-Switch to manage your company’s storage network. A section of your company’s employees is located in your local branch offices and a section is stationed in your overseas offices.

You need to configure volume access for both the local and overseas employees.

In this example, the storage network consists of:

One JBOD appliance with four disks of equal capacity (the actual capacity is not important) connected to the V-Switch.

One computer terminal with a network card (NIC) acting as the management station for the V-Switch connected to the Ethernet port Eth1 via a 1 Gbit Ethernet RJ45 cable. See #2 in Figure 106, page 264.

One LAN connection to Ethernet port Eth2 via a 1 Gbit Ethernet RJ45 cable. See #3 in Figure 106, page 264.

One external network connection to the LAN.

The hosts 1 and 2 run on the Windows™ 2000 platform and have the IBM iSCSI initiator v.1.2.2 software installed.

An IP address has already been assigned to the management station.

The management port Eth 1 IP address will be assigned 100.100.100.2.

The network port Eth 2 IP address will be assigned 212.199.43.56.

The iSCSI portal for network port Eth2 will be set to 5003.

Your network should mimic Figure 106, page 264.

This example explains how to:

Initialize your V-Switch via the LCD display panel and control buttons.

Manage your V-Switch through a direct 1 Gbit Ethernet connection to the V-Switch Eth 1 network port.

Configure IP routing to a remote IP network.

Configure network port Eth 2 for volume exposure to hosts.

Create a RAID 10 volume.

Expose a RAID 10 volume to both local and remote hosts.

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