Network Administration Guide

This guide provides information about the server's network usage, and explains how to configure network interfaces, IP addressing, name and directory services.

Child Topics

• File serving interfaces
• Non-file serving interfaces
• Jumbo frames support
• Default gateways
• Cluster switch configuration

  When configuring switches for use with NAS server clusters, there are several guidelines to follow in order to optimize the transfer of data.

• Static routes
• Dynamic routes
• Managing routes
• Routing by EVS

  Routing by EVS restricts the choice of source addresses available to the routing engine to those associated with the source EVS. Routing by EVS is always enabled in multi-tenancy mode. Routing by EVS can also be enabled when not in multi-tenancy mode.

• Name services
• Directory services
• IPv6 overview
• IPv6 and the NAS server
• Viewing link aggregations
• Adding link aggregations
• Editing link aggregations
• Deleting link aggregations
• Configuring LACP
• Configuring aggregate Linux interfaces
• Adding VLAN interfaces

  VLAN interfaces are explicitly created and deleted by the Administrator. To create a VLAN interface, supply the base aggregation interface name and the VLAN tag. Then associate IP addresses with those VLAN interfaces using the evs or evsipaddr commands.

• Deleting VLAN interfaces
• Advanced VLAN interface configuration
• Viewing IP addresses
• Adding IP addresses
• Deleting IP addresses
• Advanced IP configuration
• Advanced IP configuration using the CLI
• Viewing IP routes
• Adding IP routes
• Deleting IP routes
• Specifying name services
• Prioritizing name services
• Configuring NIS servers
• Configuring LDAP servers
• Configuring non-file serving interfaces
• Configuring devices on the system monitor
• Network health information
• Detecting network issues
• Collecting network packets
• VLAN conversion
• Network ports