I have a blade which from what I understand, has 2 internal NIC's. This blade has 2 x Emulex card installed. but when you look at the insight display on the front panel on the c7000 enclosure it shows the blade has having 9 Nics? Does that panel show Fibre links as NICS. How do I get this blade to only show 2 NIC's. The customer has told me that he sees 9 NICS in the RBSU but I haven't seen that myself so I can't comment.
I very much doubt you can alter the appearance or name of things in the insight display. Wouldn't it be enough to look at the server in the OA and see what kind of mezzanine card(s) or what kind of nics/hbas it has?
The panel says it has 2 emulex fibre cards installed. Which I have no reason not to believe? on our site I need to wait weeks trying to get access to remove the blade from the chassis.
OA will show 8 NICs, however NIC will get activated based on number of Enet Switches connected to it. It seems you have 2 switches, so only two NIC are visible inside blade
I have enclosed a pic of the RBSU off one of the blades showing all the NIC connections. Can anyone help explain this, is this something to do with it being a Flex NIC?
You could disable the Flex-10 ports you are not using. I just purchased a HP C7000, two Flex-10 modules, A5820 switch. I am planning on all 16 external ports being connected to the A5820 for maximum throughput from the 6 blades and two future blades. You don't need VMWare to use the ports. How many of the ports will be connected to your switches? ICE should allow you to configure the ports without VMWare.
