Network Interfaces

Network interfaces are logical representations of physical ports on Ethernet Network Interface Cards (NICs) or Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs). For iSCSI traffic, each Ethernet interface must be assigned a configured subnet, and the same subnet can be assigned to multiple interfaces. You can also enable or disable VLAN tagging for each subnet on each Ethernet interface.

Fibre Channel arrays have both Ethernet and Fibre Channel interfaces. The Ethernet interfaces on a Fibre Channel array are used only for management, intra-group communication, and replication traffic; Fibre Channel interfaces are used for data traffic only. Fibre Channel interfaces do not require an assigned subnet. Instead, WWPNs are automatically assigned to them.