User's Manual

Maintenance and troubleshooting 287
a. Power down the server blade using the Momentary Press option.
b. Re-apply the VC server profile.
c. Power up the server.
The following operations do not require the server blade to be powered down:
• Changing the network connected to an already defined Ethernet port
• Changing the Fabric connected to a Fibre Channel port
• Changing the speed of a Fibre Channel port
• Assigning or unassigning server profiles, if server factory defaults are used for MAC addresses and
WWNs, BIOS Fibre Channel boot settings are used, and PXE is not being enabled or disabled (USE
BIOS for all network connections).
Exceptions for Flex-10 and FlexFabric 20 connection changes are specified in the following sections.
Flex-10 and FlexFabric 20 connection changes that require power down
Always power down server blades with Flex-10 connections in the following instances:
• Adding a connection that is mapped to a Flex-10 or FlexFabric 20
• Removing a connection that is mapped to a Flex-10 or FlexFabric 20
• Assigning a profile to a server that maps Flex-10 or FlexFabric 20 connections
• Unassigning a profile with Flex-10 or FlexFabric 20 connections
Flex-10 connection changes that do not require power down
With Virtual Connect v2.10 and higher, it is not necessary to power down a server blade with Flex-10
connections in the following instances:
• Changing a connection's network:
o From a single network to another single network
o From a single network to multiple networks
o From multiple networks to a single network
• Modifying the networks or VLAN IDs in a connection with multiple networks
With Virtual Connect v2.30 and higher, it is not necessary to power down a server blade with Flex-10
connections in the following instances:
• Changing a connection's network:
o From "unassigned" to a single network
o From a single network to "unassigned"
o From "unassigned" to multiple networks
o From multiple networks to "unassigned"
• Changing the requested bandwidth
FCoE connection changes that require power down
• Adding an FCoE connection to an assigned server profile
• Removing an FCoE connection from an assigned server profile
• Assigning a profile containing FCoE connections to a server
• Changing FCoE boot parameters