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The Force10 MXL switch has 32 internal ports which has a capacity to map to all 32 M420 blades within a chassis.
However, as seen in the figure below, all blades in “a” and “c” slots have NIC1 mapped to the internal ports of IOM A1
and, all blades in “b” and “d” slots have NIC2 mapped to the internal ports of IOM A1.We want to provision blades in
slots “b” and “d” via NIC2 and use only 1 MXL switch in Slot A1 to PXE boot all the servers, thus providing a cost
efficient bundled solution.
The Force10 MXL IOM in Fabric A of the chassis would be mapped to the M420 servers as shown in the figure
below: