R640 And R740Xd Pci Slots, Integrated Nics And Bmc Port Locations - Dell EMC VxFlex Ready Node Operating System Installation Manual

Figure 1 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 iDRAC ports.
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.
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 are two PCI cards or more, the lowest slot number is used for allocation of data ports. For example, if
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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
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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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If there are only 2*25GbE onboard ports, the left port is used for both the management and data network, and
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the right port for is used for data.
Note: The application\client network will have to run on those same two ports.
If there are only 4*10G onboard ports:
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The left port is used for management
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The left port, and the third port from the left are used for VxFlex OS data
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