Blade BL685c G6 see 10 Network Connections

[aryan14in]

I got a C7000 blade enclosure. I am new to blades. Though i have configured the Network part for Full height blades (BL685c G6)by reading the pdf, i think something is missing. I can see 10 Network Connections inside one Blade and out of which two shows connected, rest shows no connectivity in link.
I have two Flex10 modules, out of which i have configured two ports each for one uplink set. Ports are configured to use only one vlan as of now. profile is assigned to Blade.
Please suggest how can i configure my enclosure so that i could only see desired NICs

[Raghuarch]

In the blade Network Seetings Disable(Right Click, if you are running Windows) the NIC's you don't want to see.

Make sure you don't Disable the Connected ones.

[aryan14in]

I did that, though i am wondering why it is showing so many NICs?

[JKytsi]

How many network connections you have in the VC profile for that server ?

[Daniel Bowers]

The FlexNICs will show up in Device Manager (on Windows) even if they're not configured in the VC Flex-10 module.

(Although I think you'd see 16 NICs, not 10; 8 for each dual-port embedded NIC.)

[JKytsi]

BL685c has only two flex-NICs so total amount of NICs is 10
8 from flex
2 from other two port chip

[HEM_2]

BL685c G6 has 2 dual-port NC532i NICs. That means there are 4 10Gb "pipes" on a BL685c G6.

FlexNICs that are not configured for Virtual Connect will show up in the OS as 4 Flex NICs each.

Because you configured 2 network connections in the Server Profile, LOM 1 and LOM 2 will only show up in the OS as 1 NIC each. LOM 3 and LOM 4, because they are not configured in VC will show up as 4 NICs each. That would give you a total of 10 NICs showing up in the OS.

[JKytsi]

Ouch ... You are right HEM =) I totally forgot.