Avaya VSP 7000 Technical Configuration Manual

Engineering >Avaya Virtual Services Platform 7000 with Coraid EtherDrive SRX-Series Storage Appliances Technical Configuration Guide Avaya Networking Document Date: August 2011 Document Number: NN48500-628 Document Version: 1.0 ...

Storage Appliances TCG 2 avaya.com August 2011 © 2011 Avaya Inc. All Rights Reserved. Notices While reasonable efforts have been made to ensure that the information in this document is complete and accurate at the time of printing, Avaya assumes no liability for any errors. Avaya reserves the right to make changes and corrections to the information in this document without the obligation to notify any pers ...

Storage Appliances TCG 3 avaya.com August 2011 Abstract This Technical Configuration Guide describes a solution comprised of the Avaya Virtual Services Platform 7000 and Coraid EtherDrive storage appliances. During interoperability testing, two Coraid SRX EtherDrive SAN storage appliances successfully received and stored data transmitted from the Avaya Virtual Services Platform 7000 over 10 GbE links. Inform ...

Storage Appliances TCG 4 avaya.com August 2011 Table of Contents Figures .......................................................................................................................................................... 5 Tables ............................................................................................................................................................ 5 1. Introduction ...

Storage Appliances TCG 5 avaya.com August 2011 Figures Figure 1 – Avaya VSP 7000 Ethernet Switch ............................................................................................... 7 Figure 2 – Coraid EtherDrive SRX Storage Array......................................................................................... 8 Figure 3 – SAN Test Bed Configuration .................................. ...

Storage Appliances TCG 6 avaya.com August 2011 Conventions This section describes the text, image, and command conventions used in this document. Symbols  Tip – Highlights a configuration or technical tip.  Note – Highlights important information to the reader.  Warning – Highlights important information about an action that may result in equipment damage, configuration or data loss. Text Bold ...

Storage Appliances TCG 7 avaya.com August 2011 1. Introduction This Technical Configuration Guide describes an Ethernet storage solution comprised of the Avaya Virtual Services Platform 7000 and the Coraid EtherDrive™ SRX4200 Ethernet SAN array. 1.1 Avaya Virtual Services Platform 7000 The Avaya Virtual Services Platform (VSP 7000) is a new family of 1/10Gigabit, Top of Rack, Ethernet Switches. These high- ...

Storage Appliances TCG 8 avaya.com August 2011 1.2 Coraid EtherDrive SRX Series Coraid is redefining the fundamental economics of storage with Ethernet SAN solutions that provide enterprises of all sizes with a flexible tier of high-performance, scale-out storage. The Coraid EtherDrive SRX Series storage arrays deliver performance up to 1,800 MB/sec, with multiple 10 GbE connections per shelf, providing a 5- ...

Storage Appliances TCG 9 avaya.com August 2011 2. Reference Configuration Figure 3 shows a sample storage area network (SAN) configuration with an Avaya VSP 7000, five PC servers and two Coraid EtherDrive SRX-Series storage appliances. All communication between these devices use 10 GbE links in a Layer 2 topology. All of the 10 GbE connections use SFP+ connectors with multimode fiber.  Coraid recommends t ...

Storage Appliances TCG 10 avaya.com August 2011 3. Equipment and Software Validated The following equipment and software were used for the sample configuration provided: Equipment Software • 2 Avaya VSP7024-XLS Ethernet Switches Software Release 10.0.0b36 • 5 PC 1U servers with Coraid Host Bus Adapter (HBA) network cards installed Coraid HBA build 48 CentOS 5.5 64-bit • 2 SRX-Series storage appliances ...

Storage Appliances TCG 11 avaya.com August 2011 4.1 Avaya Virtual Services Platform 7000 Configuration This section describes how to configure the Avaya VSP 7000. To allow for full utilization of the network for SAN storage, Coraid recommends isolating SAN storage networks from other network traffic.  Note – In this test setup, STP is disabled on all connected ports for faster transition time when a por ...

Storage Appliances TCG 12 avaya.com August 2011 3 Disable STP on the ports: 7024XLS(config)# interface fastEthernet 1-12 7024XLS(config-if)# spanning-tree learning disable 4 Set the IP address (for management purposes only): 7024XLS(config)# ip address 100.100.50.71 netmask 255.255.255.0 default-gateway 100.100.50.254 4.2 Server Configuration This section describes how to configure the PC servers, which must ...

Storage Appliances TCG 13 avaya.com August 2011 3) Use the online command to bring the LUNs online. 4) Use the ethdrv-stat command to confirm that each PC can communicate with the drives and the drives are mountable. 5) Use the mkfs command to create and format a file system on each RAID. The AoE protocol makes the RAID look like a local storage device: mkfs -t ext3 /dev/ 6) Each PC should mount a di ...

Storage Appliances TCG 14 avaya.com August 2011 4.3 EtherDrive SRX-Series Storage Appliance Configuration In the Avaya Networking Test Lab setup, there are two Coraid EtherDrive SRX-Series storage appliances. Between the EtherDrive SRX appliances are five different RAID arrays so that each PC server writes to its own RAID. The RAID types are: RAID 1, RAID 5 and RAID 10 arrays.  For EtherDrive SRX-Series f ...

Storage Appliances TCG 15 avaya.com August 2011 5. Test Methodology The Avaya Networking Test Lab conducted comprehensive tests using a methodology that verified various fault conditions. Using Vdbench to write and then read x number of bytes, the Test Lab used the following scenarios to test the solution with a strong focus on High Availability (HA): 1) Test Case 1 - Baseline Test 2) Test Case 2 - Simulate ...

Storage Appliances TCG 16 avaya.com August 2011 5.1 Test Case 1 – Baseline Test The objective of this test case is to test the solution under normal conditions and retrieve baseline operating data. Test Steps Expected Results Actual Results 1) Confirm that VLAN 50 was created on the VSP. All ports connected to the PC’s HBAs and the SRXs should be in VLAN 50. Confirm that all ports come up. All 10 GbE por ...

Storage Appliances TCG 17 avaya.com August 2011 5.2 Test Case 2 – Simulate HBA Link Failure The objective of this test case is to verify operations when one link fails. Test Steps Expected Results Actual Results 1) The HBAs have two 10 GbE links. Confirm that both links are active and sending traffic. Both links on the HBAs should be up. The command ethdrv-stat should show the RAID LUNs reachable from both ...

Storage Appliances TCG 18 avaya.com August 2011 5.4 Test Case 4 – Send Traffic on Link p2 Only The objective of this test case is to verify that you can send traffic on HBA Link p2 only. Test Steps Expected Results Actual Results 1) Confirm that all links are up on the VSP. Start Vdbench from the PCs. Vdbench should launch and begin reading and writing to the storage array. Pass 2) On the PC that only has ...

Storage Appliances TCG 19 avaya.com August 2011 5.6 Test Case 6 – Simulate Link p2 Failure on SRX The objective of this test case is to simulate Link p2 failure on the Coraid SRX while sending traffic and then validate that data continues to run on the remaining link. Test Steps Expected Results Actual Results 1) Restart Vdbench with both links on the HBA and two links per SRX. Vdbench should launch and be ...

Storage Appliances TCG 20 avaya.com August 2011 5.8 Test Case 8 – Simulate Link p2 Failure on VSP with the CLI The objective of this test case is to simulate Link p2 failure on the Avaya VSP 7000 with the CLI and while sending traffic. Then validate that data continues to run on the remaining link. Test Steps Expected Results Actual Results 1) Confirm that all links are up on the VSP. Start Vdbench from th ...