each server profile connection to reconfigure it to specify the network you added. Because you must edit the server profile to edit the connection, you must power off the server.

•If you attempt to delete a network that is a member of a network set, the appliance warns you that the network is assigned to at least one network set. If you delete that network and there are other networks in that network set, server profile connectivity to the deleted network is taken offline, but connectivity to other networks in the network set are unaffected.

You can add a network to a network set, including a network that has the same name as a network you deleted, while server profile connections to that network set remain online.

Network sets

•If you attempt to delete a network set that is in use by one or more server profiles, the appliance warns you that the network set is in use. If you delete the network set while it is in use, server profile connections to that network set are taken offline.

•If you add a network set with the same name as the network you deleted, connections that specify the network set are not updated—you must edit each server profile connection to reconfigure it to specify the network set you added. Because you must edit the server profile to edit the connection, you must power off the server.

•Server profiles with connections to a network set can be affected when a network in the network set is deleted. See “Networks” (page 85).

Server profiles and server hardware

•Before you edit a server profile, you must power down the server hardware to which the server profile is assigned.

•Firmware updates require that you edit the server profile to change the firmware baseline. As with any other edits to server profiles, you must power down the server hardware to which the server profile is assigned before you edit a server profile.

•Server profiles and server hardware can be affected by changes to networks and network sets. For more information, see “networks” (page 85) and “network sets” (page 86).

•Server profiles and server hardware can be affected by changes to the names of uplink sets. For more information, see “Interconnects and logical interconnects” (page 85).

8.2Configuration changes that might require changes to multiple resources

8.2.1 Adding a network

When you add a network to the appliance, you might need to make configuration changes to the following resources:

•Networks. Add the network.

•Network Sets. (Optional) If the network you are adding is an Ethernet network you might want to add it to a network set or create a network set that includes the network.

86 Planning for configuration changes