GUI Quick Start: Network
Setting Up Network Parameters
GUI Quick Start: Network Setup 1-13
Select the redundancy interface speed chooses a speed for the redundancy link.
A Gigabit connection is required for optimal failover performance; 100Mbps
connections are supported, but cause a longer interruption in service after a
failover. If you directly connect the peers, use 1000Mbps (Gigabit) with full
duplex.
Management IP address of peer switch is an in-band management address at the
peer, or its OOB management address. This is used for the initial rendezvous
between peer switches.
Quorum file server IP address identifies a file server to host the pair’s quorum
disk. The quorum disk is an external CIFS share or NFS export that provides an
additional path for heartbeats; each peer writes its heartbeats to the quorum disk,
and reads the other switch’s heartbeat from the quorum disk. Choose a
highly-available, high-performance file server, where the round-trip time for
writing 1 block of data is less than 1 second. This file server must be reachable
from the in-band management IP configured on an earlier screen.
Quorum disk protocol is NFS or CIFS.
Quorum share or export identifies a dedicated share or export at the above file
server. This share cannot be used for any storage services later, though other
shares on the same file server may be used in storage services.
The remaining fields only apply to a CIFS share being used as the quorum disk;
they disappear if you choose an NFS variant for the
Quorum disk protocol above.
A CIFS share requires proper authentication:
CIFS quorum file-server username is a valid username. The ARX uses this
identity to authenticate with the file server. Choose a username with
permission to read from and write to the share.
CIFS password is the above user’s password.
Confirm CIFS password asks for the password a second time, for
confirmation.
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