HP nPartitions (nPars) manual Profile entry Assigned network

		VCM assigned MAC	Mapping to BL860c i4	Mapping to BL870c i4
Profile entry	Assigned network	address	ports	ports
4	LAN-4	00-17-A4-77-90-16	Monarch LOM4–a	Auxiliary LOM2–a
5	LAN-5	00-17-A4-77-90-18	Monarch LOM1–b	Monarch LOM3–a
6	LAN-6	00-17-A4-77-90-1A	Monarch LOM2–b	Auxiliary LOM3–a
7	LAN-7	00-17-A4-77-90-1C	Monarch LOM3–b	Monarch LOM4–a
8	LAN-8	00-17-A4-77-90-1E	Monarch LOM4–b	Auxiliary LOM4–a

If it is important that each of the networks be mapped to the same ports on the Monarch blade after the upgrade, then the profile will need to be edited to add seven Ethernet connection entries, and then the entries must be edited to obtain the desired network connections aligned with the ports on the Monarch blade. The resulting set of Ethernet connection entries in the profile would be as follows.

Profile entry	Assigned network	VCM assigned MAC address	Mapping to BL870c i4 ports
1	LAN-1	00-17-A4-77-90-10	Monarch LOM1–a
2	unassigned	00-17-A4-77-90-12	Auxiliary LOM1–a
3	LAN-2	00-17-A4-77-90-14	Monarch LOM2–a
4	unassigned	00-17-A4-77-90-16	Auxiliary LOM2–a
5	LAN-3	00-17-A4-77-90-18	Monarch LOM3–a
6	unassigned	00-17-A4-77-90-1A	Auxiliary LOM3–a
7	LAN-4	00-17-A4-77-90-1C	Monarch LOM4–a
8	unassigned	00-17-A4-77-90-1E	Auxiliary LOM4–a
9	LAN-5	00-17-A4-77-90-20	Monarch LOM1–b
10	unassigned	00-17-A4-77-90-22	Auxiliary LOM1–b
11	LAN-6	00-17-A4-77-90-24	Monarch LOM2–b
12	unassigned	00-17-A4-77-90-26	Auxiliary LOM2–b
13	LAN-7	00-17-A4-77-90-28	Monarch LOM3–b
14	unassigned	00-17-A4-77-90-2A	Auxiliary LOM3–b
15	LAN-8	00-17-A4-77-90-2C	Monarch LOM4–b

NOTE: While the network mapping has been adjusted to preserve the original mapping of networks to ports, it is not possible to adjust the MAC address assignment to preserve the same mapping of MAC addresses to ports. If your OS is HP-UX, see the section “Preserving VC-assigned MAC addresses in HP-UX by enabling Portable Image” (page 75) for a method which can be used to preserve VC-assigned MAC addresses.

Preserving VC-assigned MAC addresses in HP-UX by enabling Portable Image

If your OS is HP-UX where the VC server profile does not use the hardware default MAC addresses and it is important that Ethernet connections configured in the OS retain their VC-assigned MAC addresses, then there is a package called “Portable Image” (PI) which can be used. The HP-UX Portable Image product is installed and enabled on the blade server before the upgrade. After the upgrade, PI will automatically modify the HP-UX network instance numbers of the new hardware environment so that they match the pre-upgrade environment. This takes advantage of the VCM

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