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Goal

This document describes basic instructions on creating VNICs on ZFS Storage Appliance non-clustered or single controller.

Solution

This document is only for non-clustered / single controller or storage head.

VNICs or Virtual Network Interface Cards, which allow single or aggregated Ethernet datalinks to be split into multiple virtual (Ethernet) datalinks.

VNICs can be optionally tagged with VLAN IDs, and can allow physical network port sharing in a cluster. 

Before Proceeding further please note the following :

1. VNIC-based and VLAN-based datalinks cannot share the same VLAN ID.

2. A VNIC cannot be configured with an MTU value larger than that of the underlying datalink.

3. VLAN identifier is optional for VNICs

4. Configuring multiple VNICs over a given device may impact the performance of all datalinks over that device by up to five percent, even when VNICs are not in use. 

If more than eight VNICs/VLANs are configured over a given datalink, performance may degrade significantly. 

Also, if a datalink uses a VLAN ID, all datalink performance for that device may be impacted by an additional five percent

Details

Steps to create VNIC on a non-clustered / single controller or storage head.

Task A: First Create Datalink and Interface as VNIC can be created over existing datalink (if datalink and interface is already created then go to Task B) :

1. Click the Datalinks  icon

2. Optionally set name and MTU

3. Choose a device from the Devices list and click "APPLY". The datalink appears in the Datalinks list.

4. Click the Interface  icon.

5. Set desired properties, choose the datalink previously created, and click "APPLY". The interface appears in the Interfaces list.

Task B: Now we can create VNIC as below :

6. Click the Datalinks  icon

7. Select the VNIC checkbox, optionally set name and MTU (equal to or less than the value in step 2) and optional VLANID and click "APPLY".

The new VNIC datalink appears in the Datalinks list.

8. Click the Interface  icon.

9. Set desired properties, choose the VNIC datalink previously created, and click "APPLY". The interface appears in the Interfaces list.

When you are finished configuring interfaces, click "APPLY" at the top to commit the configuration.

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