management network

[George Streeter]

I have noticed there is a NIC marked management and one marked nic 2 on the P4300. Isn't the correct configuration to have your normal LAN on the management NIC and your ISCSI on a separate network on NIC 2? When I try to put an IP on NIC 2 it says the node will go into multi site mode which does not sound right to me.

Maybe I should ask it a different way. I have always put the SAN on it's own separate network. How do you do that and still manage the p4300 SAN?

[Mike Povall · Accepted solution]

Hi George,

The management port is for the 'iLO' equivalent on the motherboard.

Put an IP address on NIC1 as part of the setup of the node and then create a bond through the CMC.

I agree that the iSCSI SAN should be on a seperate network so you can either use a workstation with two NICs so that one can be in the iSCSI SAN or create a route between the networks for management.

Cheers, Mike.