Stacking Virtual Connect Flex-10 & Flex-10/10D modules

chuckk281 — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:13:51 GMT

Mike had a customer enclosure stacking question:

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Customer has an existing enclosure with Flex-10 modules. They want to add second enclosure with the new Flex-10/10D modules and have it join the existing VC Domain. Will this work? Any issues?

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Reply from Robert:

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A snippet from page 56 of the VC 3.70 User Guide:

Multiple enclosure guidelines

Observe the following guidelines when connecting multiple enclosures:

• Each enclosure must have at least one supported VC-Enet, Flex-10, or FlexFabric module installed.
• All VC-Enet, Flex-10, or FlexFabric modules must be interconnected (redundantly stacked).
• All enclosures must have the same FC and FlexFabric module configuration. For example, if bays 1 and

2 of the Primary Enclosure contain FlexFabric modules, then bays 1 and 2 of Remote Enclosures 1, 2,

and 3 must also contain FlexFabric modules.

• All enclosures must have the same HP VC Flex-10/10D module configuration. For example, if bays 1

and 2 of the Primary Enclosure contain HP VC Flex-10/10D modules, then bays 1 and 2 of Remote

Enclosures 1, 2, and 3 must also contain HP VC Flex-10/10D modules.

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Stacking Virtual Connect Flex-10 & Flex-10/10D modules