Veritas Access Appliance Initial Configuration and Administration 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 and host name mapping 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 obtaining IP addresses for Veritas Access
The Veritas Access initial configuration process requires that you configure several IP addresses for the two appliance nodes.
Note:
You can only configure IPv4 addresses for Veritas Access. Do not use IP addresses starting with 172.16.X.X either as physical IP addresses or virtual IP addresses since this range of IP addresses are used for the private network.
You need to obtain a contiguous range of physical IP addresses, a contiguous range of virtual IP addresses, and a netmask for the chosen public network from the network administrator in charge of the facility where the appliance is located. All IP addresses (both physical and virtual) must be part of the same subnet and use the same netmask as the node's access IP.
By design, the appliance does not support the use of the localhost (127.0.0.1) IP address during configuration.
The information you obtain from the network administrator is used to configure the following:
Physical IP addresses
Virtual IP addresses
Console IP address
IP address for the default gateway
IP address for the Domain Name System (DNS) server
DNS domain name
Table: Required IP addresses
Number of IPs | Item |
|---|---|
4 | Physical IP addresses for public network access over eth4 and eth5 |
4 | Virtual IP addresses for public network access over eth4 and eth5 |
1 | IP address for the management console |
Total = 9 | Note: You need four additional physical IP addresses for appliance management. |
To request and specify IP addresses
- Request the public IP addresses that you need from your Network Administrator.
- For example, if the Network Administrator provides you with IP addresses 10.209.105.120 through 10.209.105.123 and 10.209.105.127 through 10.209.105.131, you can allocate the resources in the following manner:
Start of Physical IP address: 10.209.105.120 Start of Virtual IP address: 10.209.105.127 Management Console IP:10.209.105.131
This entry gives you four physical IP addresses (10.209.105.120 to 10.209.105.123), four virtual IP addresses (10.209.105.127 to 10.209.105.130), and one IP address for the Operations Manager (10.209.105.131).
10.209.105.120 and 10.209.105.121 are assigned to pubeth0 and pubeth1 as physical IP addresses on the first node.
10.209.105.122 and 10.209.105.123 are assigned to pubeth0 and pubeth1 as physical IP addresses on the second node.
10.209.105.127 to 10.209.105.130 are assigned to pubeth0 and pubeth1 as virtual IP addresses on the two nodes.
For more details about Veritas Access network requirements, refer to the Veritas Access Installation Guide.
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