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•When a profile is added, the FC/FCoE connections initially displayed are based on the FC/FCoE module configuration in the domain. A pair of horizontally adjacent FC/FCoE-capable modules has two connections.

•Connections can only be added or removed from the bottom. You can only add or delete connections at the end of the list.

•You can remove connections at any time (one at a time, from the bottom).

•If the existing profile connections do not match the current FC/FCoE module configurations, the add operation is not allowed.

•The current maximum number of per server profile FC/FCoE connections mapped to the same I/O bay is four, unless you are using the HP Integrity BL890c i4 Server Blade.

o When FlexFabric modules exist in I/O bays 1 and 2, there can be an additional eight FCoE connections that will get mapped to LOMs 3 and 4 on the blades in an Integrity BL890c i4 server. The BL890c i4 server has CNA LOMs, which enable two FCoE connections to I/O bay 1 (from LOMs 1 and 3) and two FCoE connections to I/O bay 2 (from LOMs 2 and 4).

The following table lists several scenarios that describe how adding FC/FCoE connections affects an existing profile. The scenarios are true for FC module configurations and FC modules, as well as FCoE module configurations and FCoE-capable modules.

Scenario	Description	Existing profile		Current FC module		Adding profile connections
		connections		configurations
1	Start with modules in Bays 3	Port	Connected to	—	—	Port	Connected to
	and 4, create a profile, then	1	Bay 3	Bay 3	Bay 4	1	Bay 3
	edit the profile and add	2	Bay 4	—	—	2	Bay 4
	connections.			—	—	3	Bay 3
						4	Bay 4
						Add connection, 2 times
2	Start with modules in Bays	Port	Connected to	—	—	Port	Connected to
	3–6, create a profile, then	1	Bay 3	Bay 3	Bay 4	1	Bay 3
	edit the profile and add	2	Bay 4	Bay 5	Bay 6	2	Bay 4
	connections.	3	Bay 5	—	—	3	Bay 5
		4	Bay 6			4	Bay 6
						5	Bay 3
						6	Bay 4
						7	Bay 5
						8	Bay 6
						Add connection, 4 times
3	Start with modules in Bays 3	Port	Connected to	—	—	Port	Connected to
	and 4, create a profile,	1	Bay 3	Bay 3	Bay 4	1	Bay 3
	install modules into Bays 5	2	Bay 4	Bay 5	Bay 6	2	Bay 4
	and 6, then edit the profile			—	—	3	Bay 5
	and add connections.					4	Bay 6
						Add connection, 2 times

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