Installing Bmc Cables - Dell PowerEdge C8000 Setup Manual

Figure 5: BMC cable installation.
A quick and easy guide to setting up the Dell PowerEdge C8000

Installing BMC cables

You can access the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) of a sled using
two modes of operation:

Non-Central Independent Mode, in which you access BMC through a
dedicated NIC using the sled's BMC management port

Non-Central Consolidated Mode, in which you access BMC through a
shared NIC using the PowerEdge C8000 server enclosure's BMC
management port and Ethernet port.
For our setup, we chose the Non-Central Consolidated Mode as this reduces the
number of Ethernet cables required for system management. To use Non-Central
Consolidated Mode, a BMC management cable must be installed inside the sleds. To
install the BMC management cable, you must open the sled and remove the hard drive
carrier and tray. Figure 5 shows the BMC cable installed.
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