Dell EMC VxFlex Ready Node Operating System Installation Manual page 37

Figure 1 R640 and R740xd PCI slots, integrated NICs and iDRAC 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 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 iDRAC IP address can reside on a different subnet and/or VLAN, and the only requirement from the iDRAC side is
that the AMS (when used) must have a routable IP Path to the iDRAC IP address on the node.
If there are two PCI cards or more, the lowest slot number is used for allocation of 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.
The iDRAC IP address can reside on a different subnet and/or VLAN, and the only requirement from the iDRAC side is
that the AMS (when used) must have a routable IP Path to the iDRAC IP address on the node.
If there are two PCI cards or more, the lowest slot number is used for allocation of 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.
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 management network.
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If there is only one NIC, the left 10G onboard port is used for the data network.
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VxFlex Ready Node Operating System Installation Guide for ESXi
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