Thanks for the response. When you say " Open up the Group IP Address and all the Members eth Port IP Addresses", is that mean the Member from DR Site should be able to ping the Member Addresses in the Production site. Is that right? As i mentioned in my query, currently we have our Group Address and the Member IP Addresses are configured in a private subnet ( No Gateway is configured ). Only the Systems in the Subnet can ping the Group IP Address. Do we need to configure our subnet with a Gateway defined?
Yes, you would need to use a default gateway to the device used to connect subnets and forward network traffic beyond the local network. Note: The default gateway must be on the same subnet as the array network interface. Typically a setup would use a port group on each SAN switch (with enough ports, to handles the replication data rates you require), then uplink them to a concentrator (switch) that would be connected to the router (do this for both sides of the replication locations).
The firewall on your network can then be used to only allow ICMP and TCP Port 3260 traffic from the SAN subnets.
Once your network is configured, you will be able to ping the Remote Group IP address, AND any interface on the arrays located at the other end (from Group A to any interface on Group B, and visa-versa).
To test the ping from array to array. Telnet to each member (use the member IP address, not the group
IP address) and use:
ping "-I "
Note: the above is a Capital eye "I" and the quotes are needed from the group prompt
The sourceIP is the IP address of a specific array ETH port. This is done from a group prompt after logging into the array.
Example:
Here is an example going from one network '10.1' to another '10.3' which might be the case if you are checking the connectivity for replication:
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Joe
tvijay
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Thanks for the response. When you say " Open up the Group IP Address and all the Members eth Port IP Addresses", is that mean the Member from DR Site should be able to ping the Member Addresses in the Production site. Is that right? As i mentioned in my query, currently we have our Group Address and the Member IP Addresses are configured in a private subnet ( No Gateway is configured ). Only the Systems in the Subnet can ping the Group IP Address. Do we need to configure our subnet with a Gateway defined?
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May 26th, 2011 09:00
Yes, you would need to use a default gateway to the device used to connect subnets and forward network traffic beyond the local network. Note: The default gateway must be on the same subnet as the array network interface. Typically a setup would use a port group on each SAN switch (with enough ports, to handles the replication data rates you require), then uplink them to a concentrator (switch) that would be connected to the router (do this for both sides of the replication locations).
The firewall on your network can then be used to only allow ICMP and TCP Port 3260 traffic from the SAN subnets.
Once your network is configured, you will be able to ping the Remote Group IP address, AND any interface on the arrays located at the other end (from Group A to any interface on Group B, and visa-versa).
To test the ping from array to array. Telnet to each member (use the member IP address, not the group
IP address) and use:
ping "-I "
Note: the above is a Capital eye "I" and the quotes are needed from the group prompt
The sourceIP is the IP address of a specific array ETH port. This is done from a group prompt after logging into the array.
Example:
Here is an example going from one network '10.1' to another '10.3' which might be the case if you are checking the connectivity for replication:
groupname>ping " -I 10.1.20.11 10.3.20.100"
Regards,
Joe
DurkinR
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May 26th, 2011 12:00
Something like Big-IP http://www.delltechcenter.com/page/EqualLogic+WAN+Replication+using+f5+BIG-IP+WAN+Optimization+Module
We use replication on the local LAN and just for a few volumes the traffic is many gigs per day.