P4500 Used the iLO port for Management??

[Simon Paynton]

Hello

We have a pair of P4500 and each has x2 Gig ports that I am going to split across x2 switchs, this is all good working etc.

Now I want to manage the device from my management network, so ideally I would like to use the iLO port as iLO and managament (both will be same subnet). I have changed the iLO port to shared in the bios, but CSC still only shows two interfaces, can anybody tell me how (or if) I can use the iLO port as a management port also.

Thanks

[teledata]

I don't believe that the SAN/iQ Software has support to use a shared iLO port for the P4000 SAN.

[Simon Paynton]

Thats a bit of a shame (and waste), guess I will have to allow our management network access to the SAn VLAN (I was hoping to keep it totally apart).

[IainS]

I have to agree, I was pretty disappointed when I realised that CSC has to be on the iSCSI network. Really just wanted that network to be solely for iSCSI traffic but it seems there is no option.

I had assumed the iLO port would be also for CSC but turned out to not be the case. Bit of an oversight in my view.

[Uwe Zessin]

"iLO Shared Network Port", as the feature is called, means that the iLO gets an alternate link to the servers main NIC (with a separate MAC address). Imagine there is a mini-switch between the main NIC, the iLO NIC and the physical NIC port.
It is meant to reduce network cabeling.