11Quick Start: Adding an enclosure and connecting its server blades to networks

This quick start describes the process to add an enclosure to an existing appliance environment and enable the server blades to access the existing data center networks.

The steps you take to add an enclosure and ensure that its server blades are connected to the data center networks depend on whether you use an existing enclosure group, or if you need to define the network connectivity by configuring enclosure groups, and logical interconnects and their uplink sets.

For a server blade in an enclosure to connect to a data center network, you must ensure that several resources are configured. For a complete list of resources and the reasons you need them, see “Checklist: connecting a server blade to a data center network” (page 99).

Logical interconnect groups, their uplink sets, and their associated enclosure groups can be created in different ways:

•You can create them before the enclosure is added to the appliance.

•You can create them as part of the enclosure add operation. During the enclosure add operation, the appliance detects the interconnects installed in the enclosure and creates the groups based on the hardware in the enclosure. You complete the configuration of the groups before you complete the enclosure add operation.

11.1Checklist: connecting a server blade to a data center network

Connecting a server blade to a data center network requires the following resources:

•Enclosure group

•Enclosure

•Logical interconnect group

•Logical interconnect

•Uplink set

•Network or network set

•Server profile assigned to server hardware

The following table describes the configuration elements required for a server blade to connect to a data center network.

Configuration requirement

Why you need it

 

 

Enclosure must specify a logical

The logical interconnect group defines the standard configurations to be

interconnect group

used for the interconnect modules in the enclosure.

 

 

Logical interconnect group must have at

The uplink set determines which data center networks are permitted to

least one uplink set

send traffic over which physical uplink ports.

 

 

Uplink set must include at least one network

The uplink sets defines the networks that are to be accessible from this

 

logical interconnect.

 

 

Uplink set must include at least one uplink

The uplink set defines which hardware ports can accept traffic from which

port

networks.

 

 

Server profile must be assigned to server

The server hardware provides the physical connections to at least one

hardware

interconnect that is part of the logical interconnect.

 

 

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