R640 And R740Xd Pci Slots, Integrated Nics And Bmc Port Locations - Dell EMC VxFlex Ready Node 14G Manual

Figure 4 R640 and R740xd PCI slots, integrated NICs and BMC port locations
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Data cables are connected to two switches for high availability, via the nodes' 10 GbE,
25 GbE, or 100 GbE ports. Management interfaces are connected to a switch on a
separate management network using onboard and BMC (iDRAC) ports.
In ESXi environments, the AMS/discovery server must be on the same Layer 2
network as the ESXi management ports. This allows the use of the Broadcast protocol
for initial IP address configuration.
The BMC (iDRAC) IP address can reside on a different subnet and/or VLAN, and the
only requirement from the BMC (iDRAC) side is that the AMS (when used) must have
a routable IP Path to the BMC (iDRAC) IP address on the node.
The default configuration used in simple mode deployment follows the following rules
of thumb:
If there is a 1G NIC onboard, the left one of the pair is always used for the
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management network.
If there are two PCI cards or more, the lowest slot number is used for allocation of
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data ports. For example, if slots 2, 3 and 5 are populated with NICs, AMS uses
slots 2 and 3, and the left port on each PCI card is used for data.
Note
You can always change the default using advanced deployment mode in AMS.
If there is only one NIC, the left 10G onboard port is used for the data network.
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R640 and R740xd server NIC and BMC (iDRAC) port locations
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