PowerScale OneFS 9.8.0.0 Technical Specifications Guide

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Networking guidelines

This section presents guidelines for OneFS networking configurations.

Table 1. OneFS networking specificationsA table displaying the OneFS networking specifications is shown below.
Item	OneFS 9.8.0.0	Description
Default routes per node	1	The limit for default routes per node. OneFS does not support default routes per interface.
DNS configurations per cluster	1 per groupnet	The recommended limit for DNS configurations per cluster. In OneFS, you can specify multiple DNS resolver configurations with a limit of one DNS resolver configuration per groupnet. You can have as many groupnets as there are access zones.
DNS name servers per configuration	3	The limit for DNS name servers per configuration.
Groupnets	1 per access zone	The limit for groupnets per access zone. Groupnets are optional and should be used only if the access zone requires an alternate DNS server. The number of access zones should not exceed 50.
DNS search suffixes per configuration	6	The limit for DNS search suffixes per configuration.
Network pools per cluster	100	The recommended limit for network pools per cluster. The maximum limit has not been established. The number of network pools should be kept under 100 pools across all subnets and groupnets in the cluster
SmartConnect DNS zone names	100	The limit for SmartConnect DNS zone names per cluster. See the "Network pools per cluster" entry for more information.
SmartConnect DNS zone name aliases	100	The recommended limit for SmartConnect DNS zone name aliases. The maximum limit has not been established. The number of DNS zone name aliases should be kept under 100 in the cluster.
Subnets per cluster	100	The limit for subnets per cluster.
VLANs per cluster	100	The limit for VLANs per cluster.