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Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces Deployment Guide

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Network settings and IP addresses

On the basis of your network infrastructure, you must know the following information to associate with the network setup of each NIC:
  • IP address
  • Gateway IP address
  • Subnet mask
  • Static DNS server address
  • NOTE: A set of the following IP addresses are required for each server node in the cluster.

A summary of the seven IP addresses required for configuring the NICs on each node in the following table.

Table 1. Node IP address summary . Node IP address summary
  Static or DHCP address Subnet mask Gateway DNS Network
iDRAC Server Management Either X X X Subnet 1 or existing network (Layer 3-routable)
Cluster- or Server Management Either X X X Subnet 1 or existing network (Layer 3-routable)
Either X X X Subnet 1 or existing customer network (Layer 3-routable)
External communication to SMB clients Static X X X Subnet 2 (Layer 3-routable)
Static X X X Subnet 3 (Layer 3-routable)
Internal communication between server cluster nodes Static X     Subnet 4
Static X     Subnet 5

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