Users Guide

For example:
(starting_mac)00188BFFDCFA + (mac_count)0xCF - 1 = (ending_mac)00188BFFDDC8
NOTE: Lock the SD card prior to inserting in the USB Memory Card Reader to prevent accidently
modifying any of the contents. You must unlock the SD card before inserting into CMC.
About FlexAddress Plus
The FlexAddress Plus is a new feature added to the feature card version 2.0. It is an upgrade from
FlexAddress feature card version 1.0. FlexAddress Plus contains more MAC addresses than the
FlexAddress feature. Both features allow the chassis to assign World Wide Name/Media Access Control
(WWN/MAC) addresses to Fibre Channel and Ethernet devices. Chassis assigned WWN/MAC addresses
are globally unique and specific to a server slot.
FlexAddress and FlexAddress Plus Comparison
FlexAddress has 208 addresses divided into 16 server slots, thus each slot is allocated with 13 MACs.
FlexAddress Plus has 2928 addresses divided into 16 server slots, thus each slot is allocated with 183
MACs.
The following table shows the provision of the MAC addresses in both the features.
Fabric A Fabric B Fabric C iDRAC
Management
Total MACs
FlexAddress 4 4 4 1 13
FlexAddress
Plus
60 60 60 3 183
Figure 3. FlexAdress (FA) vs FlexPlusAddress (FA+) Features
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