HPE SOLUTION FOR GOOGLE ANTHOS 1.8 ON HPE INFRASTRUCTURE

# Physical Environment components

This section outlines the steps to be performed to configure the physical environment used in this solution

# Switching and cabling

Figure 5 describes the cabling configuration of nineteen (19) HPE ProLiant DL Gen10 Servers as well as the HPE Aruba 8325-32C BF switches and Aruba VSX, which takes advantage of the ArubaOS-CX modern architecture, and delivers best in class high availability within the context of this solution

Figure 5. Frame and switch cabling within the solution

Table 5 explains the cabling of the Virtual Connect interconnect modules to the HPE Aruba 8325-32C switching.

[]{#table5 .anchor}Table 5. Network used in this solution.

Network Name Type VLAN Number Purpose Requested Bandwidth (Gb) Maximum Bandwidth (Gb)
DataCenter_Network Ethernet 2193 Production Application, authentication and other user networks 2.5 100
Management_Network Ethernet 1193 iLO, ESXi management and other management networks 2.5 100
iSCSI_Network (optional) Ethernet 3193 HPE Nimble Storage Arrays Connectivity 2.5 100

# Physical cabling

Table 6 represents mapping of source ports to ports on the HPE Aruba 8325-32C switches.

Table 6. HPE Aruba port map

Uplink Set DL Source Switch Destination
Datacenter_Network Enclosure 1 Port Q3 Interface1/1/1
Enclosure 1 Port Q4 Interface1/1/2
Enclosure 2 Port Q3 Interface1/1/3
Enclosure 2 Port Q4 Interface1/1/4

Hewlett Packard Enterprise recommends that the installation user logs on to the switch, post-configuration and provide a description for each of these ports.

# Network definition

There are multiple networks defined at the switch layer in this solution:

  • Management Network -- This network facilitates the management of hardware and software interfaced by IT.

  • Data Center Network -- This network carries traffic from the overlay network used by the pods to external consumers of pod deployed services.

# Configure VLAN

This section details the steps required to configure a VLAN.

  1. To add these networks to the switch, logon to the switch console over SSH and run the following commands.
>
> # sys
>
> # vlan 1193 2193
>
  1. For each of these VLANs, perform the following steps.
>
> # interface vlan-interface ####
>
> # name VLAN Name per table above
>
> # description Add text that describes the purpose of the VLAN
>
> # quit
>

NOTE

Hewlett Packard Enterprise strongly recommends configuring a dummy VLAN on the switches and assign unused ports to that VLAN.

  1. The switches should be configured with a bridge aggregation group (BAGG) for the different links to the HPE DL Server connections. To configure the BAGG and ports as described in Table 5, run the following commands.
>
> # interface Bridge-Aggregation111
>
> # link-aggregation mode dynamic
>
> # description \<FrameNameU30\>-ICM
>
> # quit
>
> # interface range name \<FrameNameU30\>-ICM interface
> Bridge-Aggregation111
>
> # quit
>
> # interface range HundredGigE 1/1/1 to HundredGigE 1/1/2 HundredGigE
> 2/1/1 to HundredGigE 2/1/2
>
> # port link-aggregation group 111
>
> # quit
>
> # interface range name \<FrameNameU30\>-ICM
>
> # port link-type trunk
>
> # undo port trunk permit vlan 1
>
> # port trunk permit vlan 1193 2193
>
> # quit
>
  1. After the configuration of the switches is complete, save the state and apply it by typing save and follow the resulting prompts.

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