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Figure 4: Dell vStart Blade LAN Connectivity Overview
On both the PowerEdge M620 and PowerEdge R620 servers, each of their 10GbE ports is partitioned into
four ports using NPAR and a total of eight NICs are created on each server. Then, on each server, four
NIC teams are created and configured as switch independent teams using the Broadcom Advanced
Control Suite utility. Figure 5 illustrates the network configuration on a Dell PowerEdge M620 blade
server and Figure 6 illustrates the configuration of the PowerEdge R620 management servers. Different
VLAN IDs are assigned to these teamed NICs to segregate the traffic on the host and provide the
segmentation necessary for cluster management, Live Migration (LM), cluster private, virtual machine,
and other types of traffic as described in Table 2 below. The VLAN configuration used in the Dell vStart
configuration is listed in Table 3.
PowerEdge M1000e Chassis
Blade - 1
PowerEdge
M620
Blade - 16
PowerEdge
M620
Dell Force10 S4810
Dell Force10 S4810
LAN
Trunk
bNDC bNDC
IOM
10Gb Ethernet
Pass-Through
Module
IOM
10Gb Ethernet
Pass-Through
Module
16 (1X1) 10GbE
connections
16 (1X1) 10GbE
connections
2 X 40 GbE
connections
8 X 10 GbE connections or
2 X 40G connections
8 X 10 GbE connections or
2 X 40G connections
PowerEdge M1000e Chassis
Blade - 1
PowerEdge
M620
Blade - 16
bNDC bNDC
IOM
10Gb Ethernet
Pass-Through
Module
IOM
10Gb Ethernet
Pass-Through
Module
16 (1X1) 10GbE
connections
16 (1X1) 10GbE
connections
PowerEdge
M620
Core Network
All bNDCs are Broadcom 57810-k