External network connectivity

For Integrated Analytics System, you can select between several physical connectivity options and applications. The appliance offers different physical media and port speed options, different number of ports (including bonding), and you can also define VLAN requirements on these ports and bonds. You can also define IP connectivity for your set of compute nodes, define IP addresses for each node, and count IP addresses of DNS servers. The appliance enables external connectivity through patch panel to all compute nodes.

External connectivity over Ethernet is available for:
  • High-speed data load and ingest
  • High-speed backup and restore over NFS/NAS from head node.
  • IDAA interconnectivity
  • Call home
  • Appliance management and maintenance
  • Install and POC.
  • Service (including compute node FSP access)
External connectivity includes support for:
  • 1 GbE and 10 GbE options
  • IPv4
  • Interface bonding (teaming)
  • Multiple IP subnets per interface or per bonded interface

Interface combinations:

eth0: 1G
eth1: 1G
eth2: 1G
eth3: 1G
eth4: 10G
eth5: 10G
eth6: 10G
eth7: 10G
eth8: 10G
eth9: 10G
eth10: 10G
eth11: 10G
fbond0: 2x10G, subordinates (eth4 eth5), bond mode 4
fbond1: 2x10G, subordinates (eth6 eth7), bond mode 4
fbond2: 2x10G, subordinates (eth8 eth9), bond mode 4
fbond3: 2x10G, subordinates (eth10 eth11), bond mode 4
fbond4: 4x10G, subordinates (eth4 eth5 eth6 eth7), bond mode 4
fbond5: 4x10G, subordinates (eth8 eth9 eth10 eth11), bond mode 4
mbond0: 2x1G, subordinates (eth0 eth1), bond mode 4
mbond1: 2x1G, subordinates (eth2 eth3), bond mode 4
mbond2: 4x1G, subordinates (eth0 eth1 eth2 eth3), bond mode 4

Figure 1. Connectivity to all compute nodes
This image shows connectivity through the system patch panel providing access to all compute nodes.
All interfaces on the patch panel, except for Fibre Channel ports (FCA), go to a pair of switches that aggregate the ports by using clag when interface bonding is used.