Process

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

Resource

Task

Description

 

 

 

 

Networks

1.

Add the network.

• Adding a network does not require that you take resources offline.

 

 

 

• For more information about networks, see “Managing networks and

 

 

 

network resources” (page 115), the online help for the Networks

 

 

 

screen, or the REST API scripting help for networks and network sets.

 

 

 

 

Logical

2.

Add the network to an

• When you add a network to an appliance, it is immediately available.

Interconnect

 

uplink set.

However, for a server blade to connect to that network, the network

Groups

 

 

must be included in an uplink set on the logical interconnect for that

 

 

 

server blade, and the server profile for the server blade must include

 

 

 

a connection to either the network or a network set that includes the

 

 

 

network.

 

 

 

• You can either add the network to an existing uplink set or create a

 

 

 

new uplink set for the network.

 

 

 

• Changing the configuration of an uplink set does not require that

 

 

 

you take resources offline.

 

 

 

• Configuration changes made to a logical interconnect group are not

 

 

 

automatically propagated to the member logical interconnects.

 

 

 

However, by changing the logical interconnect group, for each logical

 

 

 

interconnect, you can update it with a single action.

 

 

 

• For more information, see “Managing interconnects, logical

 

 

 

interconnects, and logical interconnect groups” (page 121), the online

 

 

 

help for the Logical Interconnect Groups screen, or the REST API

 

 

 

scripting help for logical interconnects and the REST API for the

 

 

 

uplink-sets resource.

 

 

 

 

Logical

3.

Do one of the following:

• Changing the configuration of an uplink set does not require that

Interconnects

 

• Add the network to an

you take resources offline.

(one or more)

 

uplink set.

• Configuration changes made to a logical interconnect group are not

 

 

 

 

• Update the logical

automatically propagated to the member logical interconnects. To

 

 

interconnect from the

update a logical interconnect with changes made to its logical

 

 

group.

interconnect group, you must do one of the following:

 

 

 

◦ From the Logical Interconnects screen, select Actions→Update

 

 

 

from group

 

 

 

◦ Use the REST APIs to reapply the logical interconnect group.

 

 

 

When adding a network, updating a logical interconnect from its

 

 

 

group does not require that you take resources offline.

 

 

 

• You can also make changes to a logical interconnect without also

 

 

 

changing the logical interconnect group. In this case, you add the

 

 

 

network to an uplink set on the logical interconnect. However, the

 

 

 

appliance labels the logical interconnect as being inconsistent with

 

 

 

its group.

 

 

 

• For more information, see “Managing interconnects, logical

 

 

 

interconnects, and logical interconnect groups” (page 121), the online

 

 

 

help for the Logical Interconnects screen, or the REST API scripting

 

 

 

help for logical interconnects.

 

 

 

Network Sets

4. (Optional) Add the

 

 

 

network to a network set.

 

 

 

 

 

96 Quick Start: Adding a network to an existing appliance environment