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Configuring a Redundant Pair of VMA SAN Gateways Process Guide Table of contents Chapter 1: Overview and Planning ...

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11 Chapter 2: Preparation and Establishing Primary Gateway Topics: Define Network IP Addressing Plan Determine Gateway Pairing Process and Establish

12 gateways if desired. The rest of this pairing process will continue to refer to configuring two Ethernet switches as part of the redundant gatewa

13 See figure 2 below for examples of supported standalone gateway configurations with one or two arrays showing correct cabling before secondary gat

14 For this scenario of pairing a second new gateway to an existing configured standalone gateway, the existing standalone gateway will take on the

15 Figure 3 : Supported Stand-alone VMA SAN Gateway configurations One VMA Array connected to a Stand-alone VMA SAN Gateway DL380 G7 gateway Two

16 Merging two existing standalone gateway configurations The merging of two existing standalone gateways, each with a separately connected array, in

17 Update the Primary VMA SAN Gateway At this point in the process, one of the VMA SAN Gateways should have been identified as the ‘primary’ gateway

18 the primary PCIe port(s) of dually connected arrays to redundant pair gateways must be connected to one gateway while all the secondary PCIe port(

19 Figure 5: Back view of the VMA Array showing PCIe ports Ensure that the VMA Arrays connected to the ‘primary’ VMA SAN Gateway are powered up

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20 Later when the ‘secondary’ gateway is joined, the configuration database of the ‘primary’ gateway will be imported automatically into the ‘second

21 This now completes the Preparation steps required and you can continue to the next major step of the VMA SAN Gateway pairing process.

22 Chapter 3: Configure Reliable Network with Primary Gateway Topics: Add and Configure Ethernet Switches Verify and Save Configuration Configure T

23 Figure 6 : Reliable Ethernet Configuration for Redundant Pair VMA SAN Gateways Configure Trunking on Ethernet Switches Configure inter-switch t

24 Once the required Ethernet switch and network configurations and settings are made and in effect, proceed with the remainder of the pairing proces

25 • link-agg - Link Aggregation mode • balance-alb - Adaptive load balancing • link-agg-layer2+3 - Link aggreg

26 # network vlan vlan-id <vlan-id> interface eth0 # interface vlan# zeroconf Where <vlan-id> is the VLAN ID instance number between 1

27 eth0 (mtu: 1500) eth1 (mtu: 1500) eth2 (mtu: 1500) eth3 (mtu: 1500) eth4 (mtu: 1500) eth5 (mtu: 1500) et

28 Node Status: Node ID: 1 <--- (local node) Host ID: 9dc17977dad7 Hostname: hp-gateway1 Node Role: master

29 Chapter 4: Configure the Secondary Gateway Topics: Validate the Secondary Gateway Validate Secondary Gateway Hardware Configuration Connect Second

3 Chapter 1: Overview and Planning Topics: Overview – of this process guide What You Need – before starting the gateway pairing process Planning – an

30 Configure the Secondary VMA SAN Gateway Power up the ‘secondary’ VMA SAN Gateway and log in using a serial connection CLI or KVM session. At this

31 After the gateways are paired, update of the VMA SAN Gateway software OE can be performed from the web interface and take effect on both paired ga

32 Interfaces: eth0 (mtu: 1500) eth1 (mtu: 1500) eth2 (mtu: 1500) eth3 (mtu: 1500) eth4 (mtu: 1500) eth5 (mtu:

33 Join Secondary Gateway to Primary Gateway and Import Configuration At this time the ‘secondary’ VMA SAN Gateway will be paired to the ‘primary’ ga

34 Note above that after changing the Cluster ID on the ‘secondary’ gateway that the ‘cluster name’ and ‘node role’ on the ‘secondary’ gateway has no

35 Send Heartbeats to: 2 Node Status: Node ID: 2 <--- (local node) Host ID: b426207403be Hostname: hp-gateway2

36 Chapter 5: Complete Pairing Process and Configure Host Servers Topics: Connect Secondary Gateway to VMA Arrasy(s) Restart the Secondary Gateway an

37 Figure 7 : Supported Redundant Pair VMA SAN Gateway Configurations Redundant VMA SAN Gateway Pair with one VMA Array DL380 G7 Gateway Redundan

38 When the ‘secondary’ gateway is booted, login and verify that the VMA Arrays have established connection and are accessible by issuing the ‘show

39 Management IP: 10.61.184.240/24 Cluster master IF: eth0 Cluster node count: 2 Node Status: Node ID: 1 <--- (local node)

4 • Two HP Ethernet switches will need to be provided. These Ethernet switches will provide reliable network connectivity between the two gateways f

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41 On ‘secondary’ gateway: hp-gateway2 [hp-redundant1: standby] (config) # show cluster global Cluster ID: 00500-0008-6090 Cluster name

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44 benefit from the higher availability and to achieve full I/O throughput performance. Host server settings for multi-pathing vary depending upon t

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5 Figure 1. Example Redundant Gateway Pair Configuration Planning Topics: VMA Array Considerations – array firmware and backup of existing da

6 Do not perform any firmware or software updates or make any component connections until instructed to do so during the pairing process. It is als

7 VMA Array Considerations For connection of VMA Arrays to a redundant pair of VMA SAN Gateways you will be instructed to update the VMA Array firmw

8 • Configuring a virtual IP address that will be hosted by the current ‘master’ gateway for high availability of gateway management operations and

9 Redundant VMA SAN Gateway Pairing Process Flow Chart A flow chart of the process to create a Redundant VMA SAN Gateway Pair follows: Figure 2. Flo