Network set details•Network sets are supported for use in server profiles only.•All networks in a network set must be Ethernet networks.•All networks in a network set must be configured in the same appliance.•A network can be a member of multiple network sets.

•When a network is deleted, it is automatically deleted from all network sets to which it belonged.

•A network set can be empty (contain no networks) or can contain one or more of the networks configured in the appliance. Empty network sets enable you to create network sets in the configuration before you create the member networks, or to remove all of the member networks before you add their replacements. However, if a server profile adds a connection to an empty network set, the server cannot connect to any data center networks using that connection.

•When you create or modify a network set, you can designate a network for untagged packets. If you do not designate a network an untagged network, untagged packets are rejected.

•Server traffic must be tagged with the VLAN ID of one of the Ethernet networks in the network set. Untagged server traffic is either sent to the untagged network (if an untagged network is defined) or is rejected (if no untagged network is defined).

•The untagged network can send tagged and untagged traffic between the server and the interconnect simultaneously.

•When you create or modify a network set, you define the maximum bandwidth and the preferred bandwidth for connections to that network set. A server profile can override the preferred bandwidth but not the maximum bandwidth.

•When you delete a network set, the networks that belong to the network set are not affected. However, any servers with a connection to that network set are affected because their connections are defined as being to the network set and not to the individual networks. Because the network set is no longer available, the network traffic to and from that server through that connection is stopped. When you delete a network set, any server profile connections that specified that network set become undefined.

15.5Learning more

•“Managing interconnects, logical interconnects, and logical interconnect groups” (page 121)

•“Managing the appliance settings” (page 155)

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