Veritas Access Appliance Initial Configuration Guide
- Getting to know the Access Appliance
- Preparing to configure the appliance
- Configuring the appliance for the first time
- Getting started with the Veritas Access GUI
- Storage management
- Network connection management
- Configuring network address settings on the appliance nodes
- About VLAN tagging on the appliance
- Configuring static routes on the appliance
- Configuring DNS settings on the appliance
- Configuring host name on the appliance
- About the maximum transmission unit size on the appliance
- About the Veritas Remote Management Console
- Setting the date and time on the appliance
- Monitoring the appliance
- Resetting the appliance to factory settings
- Appliance security
- About Access Appliance security
- About Access appliance user account privileges
- Changing the Maintenance user account password
- About the Access Appliance intrusion detection system
- About Access appliance operating system security
- About data security on the Access appliance
- About data integrity on the Access appliance
- Recommended IPMI settings on the Access appliance
- Troubleshooting
About IPv4-IPv6-based network support on the Access Appliance
Note:
This topic only applies to eth0 and eth1 of the appliance nodes. These ports are used for appliance management and not for the Veritas Access software. You can only configure IPv4 addresses for Veritas Access.
The Veritas Access Appliance supports a dual stack IPv4-IPv6 network. You can assign an IPv6 address to an appliance, configure DNS, and configure routing to include IPv6 based systems.
Consider the following points for IPv6 addresses:
The appliance does not support a pure IPv6 network. An IPv4 address must be configured for the appliance node management interface (eth1), otherwise the initial configuration which requires the appliance nodes' management IP addresses is not successful.
Only global addresses can be used, not addresses with link-local or node-local scope. Global-scope and unique-local addresses are both treated as global addresses by the host.
Global-scope IP addresses refer to the addresses that are globally routable. Unique-local addresses are treated as global.
You cannot use both an IPv4 and an IPv6 address in the same command. For example, you cannot use Configure 9ffe::9 255.255.255.0 1.1.1.1. You should use Configure 9ffe::46 64 9ffe::49.
Embedding the IPv4 address within an IPv6 address is not supported. For example, you cannot use an address like 9ffe::10.23.1.5.
You can enter only one IPv4 address for a network interface card (NIC). However, you can enter multiple IPv6 addresses for a NIC.
Network File System (NFS) or Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocols are supported over an IPv4 network on the appliance. NFS or CIFS are not supported on IPv6 networks.
The Main_Menu > Network > Hosts command supports multiple IPv6 addresses to be assigned to the same host name having one network interface card (NIC). However, only one IPv4 address can be assigned to a specific host name having one NIC using this command.
You can add an IPv6 address of a network interface without specifying a gateway address.
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