Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product IX12-300R Iomega
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IOMEGA ® STORCENTER TM ix12-300r ADV ANCED NETWORK CONFIGURA TION GUIDE WHITE PAPER SPRING 2010 Introduction 1 T erminology 2 VLAN C onfiguration 3 NIC Bonding C onfiguration 3 Jumbo F rame C onfigur.
IOMEGA STORCENTER IX12-300R ADV ANCED NETWORK CONFIGURA TION GUIDE 1 INTRODUCTION The Iomega ® StorC enter ™ ix12-300r network storage array offers versatile storage provisioning, advanced protocol capabilities, expandability , and affordability in an easy-to-use product ideal for small businesses, workgroups, and departments.
IOMEGA STORCENTER IX12-300R ADV ANCED NETWORK CONFIGURA TION GUIDE 2 TERMINOLOGY LAN: Local Area Network. NIC: Network Interface C ard (a.k.a. Network Adapter) Virtual NIC: Virtual network interface card. In this paper , it refers to a VLAN or bonded NIC device.
IOMEGA STORCENTER IX12-300R ADV ANCED NETWORK CONFIGURA TION GUIDE 3 VLAN CONFIGURA TION VLAN is essentially a Layer 2 (Data Link Layer) construct, while an IP subnet is a Layer 3 (Network Layer) construct. In an environment employing VLAN, a many-to-many relationship can exist between VLANs and IP subnets.
IOMEGA STORCENTER IX12-300R ADV ANCED NETWORK CONFIGURA TION GUIDE 4 NIC bonding can be configured in different modes. Some typical modes include: t NIC failover: this mode provides adapter fault tolerance through automatic failovers from an active NIC to a standby NIC in the case of switch port, cable, or NIC failure.
IOMEGA STORCENTER IX12-300R ADV ANCED NETWORK CONFIGURA TION GUIDE 5 White Paper Most Gigabit Ethernet switches and Gigabit NICs support Jumbo F rames, but all F ast Ethernet switches and F ast Ethernet NICs do not support Jumbo F rames. Normally IP networks require that all hosts in a subnet have an identical MTU.
IOMEGA STORCENTER IX12-300R ADV ANCED NETWORK CONFIGURA TION GUIDE 6 White Paper CONFIGURA TION PROCEDURE As illustrated collectively in the procedures below , when using all these advanced network ca.
IOMEGA STORCENTER IX12-300R ADV ANCED NETWORK CONFIGURA TION GUIDE 7 White Paper 2. Click the button next to an interface to add a VLAN for the interface and enter the network settings for the VLAN. The existing network configuration of the interface does not need to be removed.
IOMEGA STORCENTER IX12-300R ADV ANCED NETWORK CONFIGURA TION GUIDE 8 White Paper 4. Click the button next to an interface to create a bonded device. In this example, interface 4 is used as the primary device, and interface 2 is added to the bond. Figure 4 C reate a bonded network interface 5.
IOMEGA STORCENTER IX12-300R ADV ANCED NETWORK CONFIGURA TION GUIDE 9 White Paper 6. Click the Bonding Mode dropdown menu to select the mode to be used. This is a global setting, and all the bonded devices on the StorC enter ix12-300r will use the same mode.
IOMEGA STORCENTER IX12-300R ADV ANCED NETWORK CONFIGURA TION GUIDE 10 8. Click Apply to finish the configurations. The StorC enter ix12-300r device will need to be restarted for the configurations to take effect.
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