This section explains the concept for separating tenants of address pools.
MAC addresses and WWNs can be stored together in an address pool. However, when a different server is managed because a necessary resource is different depending on the type of the server and the server virtualization software, dividing the address pool is easy to manage. We will recommend matching it to how to divide the server pool.
MAC address (Media Access Control address) | WWN | |
|---|---|---|
Blade servers (VIOM is required) | Yes | Yes |
Rack mount servers (HBA address rename is required) | No | Yes |
Yes: Necessity
No: Unnecessary
MAC address (Media Access Control address) | WWN | |
|---|---|---|
RHEL5-Xen, KVM | Yes | No |
Excluding RHEL5-Xen, KVM | No | No |
Yes: Necessity
No: Unnecessary
In the following cases, separate address pools:
When separating the LAN for each tenant, and registering MAC addresses for firewalls etc.
When separating the SAN for each tenant, and setting WWNs for fibre channel switch zoning
When using software that is aware of MAC addresses for license authentication etc.
