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тАО09-16-2009 11:44 PM
тАО09-16-2009 11:44 PM
We have a few BL460c servers with Flex-10 cards installed. Interconnect bay one and two contain two Netflex10 cards which are internally stacked.
I want to assign three virtual networks to Blade servers, in a total of 5 (2 Nics are attached default on the BL460c's + 3 virtual Nics). When i assign them, my nics pop up in VMware as 4 connected and one not.
Is it correct our Netflex cards in our Blades can only connect to two virtual networks?
Many thanks!
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тАО09-17-2009 09:17 AM
тАО09-17-2009 09:17 AM
Re: Assisning switches on Flex-10 Virtual Connect
If you do have a G6 server then each FlexNIC can be carved up into 4 physical NICs each. This means you could have a total of 8 physical NICs on a BL460c G6.
If you provide a screenshot of your assigned server profile, we could tell what might be happening.
Also make sure your VC fw is at 2.12 to avoid a known blade population issue.
Also, don't forget that even with 2 NICs, you can do VLAN tagging on the NICs so that each one can support multiple VLANs
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тАО09-17-2009 09:58 AM
тАО09-17-2009 09:58 AM
Re: Assisning switches on Flex-10 Virtual Connect
The BL460s are G1 servers, not G6. (This is because we need CPU compatibility between other blades).
The current bay configuration:
Bay1-2: HP VC Flex-10 modules
Bay3-4: Qlogic fibrswitches
Bay5-6: Normal HP gigabit switches.
Since the embedded blade NICs connect to bay 1 and 2 and my Flex-10 mezz cards connect to bay 5 and 5 i tried to plug in the flex modules in both bay 5 and 6, but that results in an invalid configuration, am i right? (i was unable to connect to the VC Manager)
Many thanks for your help!
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тАО09-17-2009 10:36 AM
тАО09-17-2009 10:36 AM
Re: Assisning switches on Flex-10 Virtual Connect
1) I'm i correct, that with the configuration as i said it was there is no way for me to create a 10Gbit network? (because Flex module 1 and 2 connect to the 1Gbit emmbedded Broadcom cards on the blades and the Flex-10 Mezz cards connect to the standard gigabit switches on bay 5 and 6?)
2) To resolve this issue without having to replace the blades: is it correct when i attach two more VC Flex-10 modules in bay 5 and 6 i would be able to setup 2 Virtual Networks running at 10Gbit?
3) We currently have 2 VC Flex-10 modules automaticly stacked. I read on the HP site the modules are active/standby, is this correct? If so, is there a way to get them active/active to run at 20Gbit?
Regards,
Joris
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тАО09-17-2009 01:46 PM
тАО09-17-2009 01:46 PM
Re: Assisning switches on Flex-10 Virtual Connect
And you will have your 2x10GB if you have a 10GB mezz in slot2 of the blades.
The flex-10 management tool is active standby
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тАО09-17-2009 01:50 PM
тАО09-17-2009 01:50 PM
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тАО09-17-2009 02:05 PM
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тАО09-17-2009 02:06 PM
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тАО09-17-2009 04:34 PM
тАО09-17-2009 04:34 PM
Re: Assisning switches on Flex-10 Virtual Connect
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/networking/nc522m/index.html
and
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/networking/nc532m/index.html