Hardware Overview; Internal Ports; Front Panel; Port Numbering - Dell PowerEdge FN 410S Getting Started Manual

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Hardware Overview

This section contains information about input/output aggregator (IOA) characteristics and modular
hardware configurations.

Internal Ports

The aggregator provides 8x10 Gigabit Ethernet internal ports. The internal ports are connected to server
through the Dell PowerEdge FX2 server chassis midplane.
The aggregator also provides an internal Ethernet interface—the out-of-band (OOB) interface, which is
dedicated to switch management traffic on this port, and is segregated from operational network traffic
on the switch ports and cannot be switched or routed to the operational network.

Front Panel

The following figure shows the aggregator front panel.
Figure 1. I/O Aggregator Front Panel

Port Numbering

When installed in a server enclosure, the Dell PowerEdge FN 410S I/O Aggregator ports are numbered
from 1 to 12. Ports from 1 to 8 are internal server-facing ports. Ports from 9 to 12 are external ports
numbered from left to right on the switch.
To configure a port, specify the slot (from 0 to 5; default: 0) and port number (from 1 to 12) in the
interface port-type slot/port command, where slot is the unit number of the aggregator
displayed in the show system brief command. For example:
Dell(conf)# interface tengigabitethernet 0/4

USB Console Port

Use the upper USB console port to manage the switch through an RS-232 serial interface. This port
provides a direct connection to the switch and allows you to access the command-line interface (CLI)
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