BL870 networking - APA

[jshoovie]

Hello,

I am new to blades.

Does this lan config look ok?

lan900 contains lan1 and lan2 for failover purposes.

It looks to me like lan0&1 are the same physical lan card and lan2&3 are the same physical card.

Therefore, lan900 should contain a port from each card for redundancy.

The reason I ask is our Windows team seems to use 2 ports from the same card for a failover setup. Being new to blades I am not 100% clear at what I am seeing.

Innterconnect Bay1 on the enclosure contains lan0&2. Innterconnect Bay2 on the enclosure contains lan1&3.

So does it makes since to use lan1&2 to create lan900? (versus lan0&1) Or does it matter?


nwmgr -S apa
Class Mode Load Speed- Membership
Instance Balancing Duplex
======== =========== ========= ==================== ===========================
lan900 LAN_MONITOR LB_HS 1 Gbps Full Duplex 1,2


ioscan -funC lan
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
===================================================================
lan 0 0/1/1/0 igelan CLAIMED INTERFACE HP PCI-X 1000Mbps Dual-port Built-in
lan 1 0/1/1/1 igelan CLAIMED INTERFACE HP PCI-X 1000Mbps Dual-port Built-in
lan 2 0/2/2/0 igelan CLAIMED INTERFACE HP PCI-X 1000Mbps Dual-port Built-in
lan 3 0/2/2/1 igelan CLAIMED INTERFACE HP PCI-X 1000Mbps Dual-port Built-in


from Onboard Administrator:

Mezzanine Slot Mezzanine Device Mezzanine Device Port Port Status Interconnect Bay Interconnect Bay Port Device ID
Embedded Embedded Ethernet
Port 1 OK Bay 1 Port 14 00:22:64:35:CE:F0
Port 2 OK Bay 2 Port 14 00:22:64:35:CE:F1
Port 3 OK Bay 1 Port 6 00:22:64:36:00:3C
Port 4 OK Bay 2 Port 6 00:22:64:36:00:3D


nwmgr

Name/ Interface Station Sub- Interface Related
ClassInstance State Address system Type Interface
============== ========= ============== ======== ============== =========
lan2 UP 0x00226436003C igelan 1000Base-SX lan900
lan0 UP 0x00226435CEF0 igelan 1000Base-SX
lan1 UP 0x00226435CEF1 igelan 1000Base-SX lan900
lan3 UP 0x00226436003D igelan 1000Base-SX
lan900 UP 0x00226435CEF1 hp_apa hp_apa

[TTr]

> It looks to me like lan0&1 are the same physical lan card and lan2&3 are the same physical card.

If I understand you correctly, 0&1 are ports on the same LAN controller and similarly 2&3. You can tell that from the MAC address, the two ports on the same LAN controller have similar MAC addresses.

There are two separate LAN controllers each with two ports. So you should use one LAN port from each controller (just like you have it now) to avoid SPF of one of the controllers.

http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12926_na/12926_na.html