PowerScale: Network Design Considerations

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  Introduction
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  Note to readers
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  Revisions
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  We value your feedback

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  Overview
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  General network architecture considerations
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  Triangle looped topology
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  Link aggregation

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  Introduction
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  Latency
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  Bandwidth and throughput
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  PowerScale network stack tuning

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  Overview
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  Checking for pause frames

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  Introduction
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  SyncIQ disaster recovery with SmartConnect
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  Replication traffic over dedicated WAN links

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  Quality of Service (QoS)

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  Software-Defined Networking

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  PowerScale OneFS ports

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  Introduction
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  SmartConnect network hierarchy
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  Load balancing
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  Static or dynamic IP address allocation
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  Dynamic failover
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  Protocols and SmartConnect allocation methods
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  IP address quantification
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  SmartConnect service name
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  SmartConnect node suspension
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  SmartConnect and Reverse DNS
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  DNS delegation best practices
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  SmartConnect DNS, subnet, and pool design
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  SmartConnect in isolated network environments
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  DNS and time-to-live
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  Flushing DNS and OneFS
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  Where the SmartConnect Service IP runs (pre OneFS 8.2)
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  SmartConnect Multi-SSIP
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  Other SmartConnect considerations

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  Introduction
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  Ethernet packet
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  Ethernet payload
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  Jumbo frames
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  IP packet overhead
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  Data payload to Ethernet frame efficiency
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  ICMP and MTU with OneFS
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  OneFS MTU commands
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  VLAN and interface MTU
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  Confirming transmitted MTU

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  Introduction
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  System Zone
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  Root-based path

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  Overview
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  Source-Based Routing and DNS

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  Isilon 6th generation 1 GbE interfaces

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  Overview
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  Configuring IPMI
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  IPMI SoL on PowerScale nodes
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  Accessing IPMI
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  Troubleshooting IPMI

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  Introduction
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  Why IPv6?
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  IPv6 addressing
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  IPv6 header
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  IPv6 to IPv4 translation
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  Router Advertisements
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  Duplicate Address Detection

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  OneFS host-based firewall
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  Introduction
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  Architecture
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  Configuration
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  STIG security profile
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  IPv6
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  FTP
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  User configurable ports
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  Source-Based Routing

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  Introduction
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  Netstat
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  InsightIQ external network errors
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  DNS

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  Appendix A: Supported network optics and transceivers

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  Technical support
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  Related resources