Users Guide

Managing Fabrics

The chassis supports two fabric types: Fabric A1 and Fabric A2, which are used by the two I/O Modules, and are always connected to the

on-board Ethernet adapters of the servers.

NOTE: In the PowerEdge FX2s chassis, fabrics B and C are the PCIe connection to the PCIe Extension cards.

Following IO Modules are supported:

• 1GbE pass-through

• 10GbE pass-through

• I/O Aggregator

Both the Fabrics support only Ethernet. Each server IO adapter ( LOM) can have either two or four ports depending on the capability. The

mezzanine card slots are occupied by PCIe extension cards that are connected to PCIe cards (and not to IO modules).

NOTE: In the CMC CLI, the IOM is referred to by the convention, switch.

Topics:

• Monitoring IOM health

• Conguring network settings for IOM

• Viewing Input Output module uplink and downlink status using web interface

• Viewing Input Output module FCoE session information using web interface

• Resetting IOM to factory default settings

• Updating IOM software using CMC web interface

• IOA or MXL GUI

• Input Output Aggregator Module

Monitoring IOM health

For information about monitoring IOM health, see Viewing Information and Health Status of the IOM.

Conguring network settings for IOM

You can specify the network settings for the interface used to manage the IOM. For Ethernet switches, the out-of-band management port

(IP address) is congured. The in-band management port (that is, VLAN1) is not congured using this interface.

Before conguring the network settings for the IOM, make sure the IOM is turned on.

To congure the network setting of IOM in Group A, you must have the Fabric A Administrator privileges.

NOTE

: For Ethernet switches, the in-band (VLAN1) and out-of-band management IP addresses cannot be the same, or cannot

be on the same network. This results in the out-of-band IP address in being not set. See the IOM documentation for the default

in-band management IP address.

NOTE: Do not congure I/O module network settings for Ethernet pass-through and Inniband switches.

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