Cisco Systems 9124E manual Port side of the Switch, Internal ports summary, Switch redundancy

Port side of the Switch

Figure 2 and Table 3 identify Cisco MDS 9124e Fabric Switch external ports (ports EXT 1 through EXT 4 and ports EXT 5 through EXT 8).

EXT 1 EXT 2 EXT 3 EXT 4 EXT 5 EXT 6 EXT 7 EXT 8

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Figure 2 Cisco MDS 9124e Fabric Switch external ports

Table 3 Identifying Cisco MDS 9124e Fabric Switch external ports

Item Description

1Left bank — EXT 1, EXT 2, EXT 3 and EXT 4

2Right bank — EXT 5, EXT 6, EXT 7 and EXT 8

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NOTE:

Refer to Interpreting LED activity for complete information on switch LEDs.

Internal ports summary

Sixteen logical internal ports (numbered 1 through 16) connect sequentially to server bays 1 through 16 via the enclosure midplane. Server bay 1 is connected to Switch Port 1, Server bay 2 is connected to Switch port 2, and so forth.

Switch redundancy

The HP c-Class BladeSystem was engineered as a no-single-point-of-failure bladed solution. Attributes that contribute to switch redundancy include:

•Redundant power and cooling

•Redundant HP Onboard Administrator (OA) to ensure management access to the switch

NOTE:

The HP Onboard Administrator is the enclosure management module used to support and manage the HP c-Class BladeSystem and all managed devices used in the enclosure.

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