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HP P4000 SAN Technical White Paper

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HP P4000 SAN networking recommendations

Technical white paper

Table of contents

Introduction .................................................................................................................................. 2

General recommendations ............................................................................................................. 2

Specific network recommendations ................................................................................................. 2

Recommended switch infrastructure for an HP P4000 SAN ................................................................ 3

Storage node connection options.................................................................................................... 5

Sample configurations ................................................................................................................... 6

Sample IP storage network configuration setup ................................................................................. 7

HP P4000 multi-site SAN networking requirements ........................................................................... 7

Network latency ....................................................................................................................... 7

Network bandwidth .................................................................................................................. 8

Suggested best practices for HP P4000 Multi-Site Configuration ..................................................... 8

Remote copy ................................................................................................................................ 9

IP networking requirements......................................................................................................... 9

Scheduling bandwidth usage ................................................................................................... 10

Best practices for 10GbE ............................................................................................................. 13

SFP+ Connections ................................................................................................................... 13

Switches ................................................................................................................................ 13

Flow control ........................................................................................................................... 13

Bonding ................................................................................................................................. 13

Server-side 10GbE NICs .......................................................................................................... 13

HP P4000 multi-site SAN ......................................................................................................... 14