Hello
I will be setting up soon brand new appliance NBU5230 in mine environment and need some advice from users who already do play with that appliance.
Currently I am using one master/media server running on Windows 2008 R2 with 3 different networks.
So to each of three NICs are assigned such IPs:
NIC1 10.1.1.122/24 hostname - nbumaster in production network, providing default gateway
NIC2 10.1.2.122/24 hostname - nbumasterbck in backup network, no gateway in it
NIC3 10.1.3.122/24 hostname - nbumasterbck2 in second backup network, no gateway in it
Default GW for this box is 10.1.1.1 so in production network.
Several clients are spread across these three networks.
All clients do have network leg in production network. In addition some of those clients do have yet another network leg in the backup or second backup network. Now depends in which backup network client has a leg, its pointing either to nbumasterbck or nbumasterbck2 - as a master server! So all backup traffic is going over that dedicated network, without travelling via default GW as client and NBU server is in the subnet.
Some clients do not have NIC in any backup network so these do point to nbumaster server.
Now I am willing to add to this env NBU 5230 appliance with 40TB of storage (I am planning to have 4TB in advance disk pool, and 36 TB in the PureDisk disk pool) as media server to above existing NBU domain. From master server I will be withdrawing the media server functionality.
In ours DC there is no 10Gbit yet. As I understand the documentation of NBU5230 there are 3 ethernet 1Gbit ports available (NIC2/NIC3/NIC4 from below picture)
Now question:
Shall I configure those three NICs of NBU appliance to mimic the current master/media server network configuration, ie:
NIC2 10.1.1.125/24 hostname - nbumedia in production network, providing default gateway
NIC3 10.1.2.125/24 hostname - nbumediabck in backup network, no gateway in it
NIC4 10.1.3.125/24 hostname - nbumediabck2 in second backup network, no gateway in it
Or it would be better to set these three NICs one logical using some bonding techniques - so only one IP address in the production network??
What are your thoughts in this regards?