Dell PowerFlex 4.6.x Technical Overview

Supporting non-bonded networking configurations

PowerFlex Manager supports non-bonded networking options with resource group templates.

Configure a storage-only template to use a non-bonded networking configuration where data networks are not bonded. Configure a compute-only template to work with a non-bonded storage-only deployment. To enable non-bonded networking, PowerFlex Manager allows the same PowerFlex management network to be on two ports on the same interface.

Set up two different types of non-bonded configurations on a resource group template:

• Four data network configuration
  • The PowerFlex management network is selected on all ports in interface1 and interface2. The management network is set on Bond0 for this configuration. This configuration reserves only one PowerFlex management IP address.
  • Data 1 is on port 1 of the first interface (assigned to Eth 0 with no bond).
  • Data 2 is on port 2 of the first interface (assigned to Eth 1 with no bond).
  • Data 3 is on port 3 of the second interface (assigned to Eth 2 with no bond).
  • Data 4 is on port 4 of the second interface (assigned to Eth 4 with no bond).
• Two data network configuration
  • The PowerFlex management network is selected on port 1 in interface1 and interface2. The management network is set on Bond0 for this configuration. This configuration reserves only one PowerFlex management IP address.
  • Data 1 is on port 1 of the second interface (assigned to Eth 0 with no bond).
  • Data 2 is on port 2 of the second interface (assigned to Eth 1 with no bond).

For a non-bonded storage-only template, you must select Trunk Port for Switch Port Configuration setting, not Port Channel (LACP enabled). For the Teaming and Bonding Configuration setting, you typically select Mode 1 for most deployments.

PowerFlex Manager provides eight different sample templates that support non-bonded network configurations. Four of the templates are for storage-only and four are for compute-only deployments. Six of the templates are new and two are modifications to existing templates offered in previous releases:

• Storage-25gb-4Data-Trunked (replaces existing Storage-Non-Bonding template)
• Storage-100gb-4Data-Trunked
• Storage-25gb-2Host-Data-Trunked
• Storage-100gb-2Host-Data-Trunked
• Compute-Linux-25gb-2Data-Trunked (replaces existing Compute-Linux template)
• Compute-Linux-25gb-4Data-Trunked
• Compute-Linux-100gb-4Data-Trunked
• Compute-ESXi-25gb-2Data-Trunked