How to setup the Management ports on Equallogic 4000E array ?

You only need 1 IP for the management port. Only 1 controller is active at any time. When the other takes over (failure, reboot, other reason), it uses the same MAC and IP of the first controller.

To set this IP, you can open the group manager web interface via the group IP (this would require a system with a graphical user interface and a java-enabled webbrowser on the iSCSI VLAN(s)/switch(es)), or you can go in via the serial cable and use the commands from the Command Line Interface (CLI) guide that's available from the Equallogic site.

thanks for clarifying the management IP setup. Can I decide which controller get to be the active one or is there a preference on setting Left-hand side or Right-hand side controller the active one ?

appreciate it.

There is no difference which is the active controller, so you cannot set a preference as such from what I've seen. If you did want to fail over, you can go to the member, and then the service tab and there's a restart option. This will trigger a failover (to the other raid controller).

Could you elaborate on using the CLI to configure the management port on the 4000e? I have a new unit out of box and I want to connect it to separate management network but the when I log in to the CLI it runs the setup program that wants to put an IP on ETH0 which is not the management port. I cant seem to find anything in the CLI as to how to program the management IP address.

Thanks!!

Go through the setup (to configure eth0), and then check the "tree" command to get an idea how to set the IP for eth2.

Off my head I think the commands would be:

- member select membername eth select 2 ipaddress ipaddress_on_your_LAN \ netmask your_subnetmask

- member select membername eth select 2 up

Hey...I never got to thank you, but those commands above worked and I was able to configure the management port with no issues.

Thanks for your help!!