a.Power down the server blade using the Momentary Press option.
b.
c.Power up the server.
The following operations do not require the server blade to be powered down:
•Changing the network connected to an already defined Ethernet port
•Changing the Fabric connected to a Fibre Channel port
•Changing the speed of a Fibre Channel port
•Assigning or unassigning server profiles, if server factory defaults are used for MAC addresses and WWNs, BIOS Fibre Channel boot settings are used, and PXE is not being enabled or disabled (USE BIOS for all network connections).
Exceptions for
Always power down server blades with
•Adding a connection that is mapped to a
•Removing a connection that is mapped to a
•Assigning a profile to a server that maps
•Unassigning a profile with
With Virtual Connect v2.10 and higher, it is not necessary to power down a server blade with
•Changing a connection's network:
o From a single network to another single network o From a single network to multiple networks
o From multiple networks to a single network
•Modifying the networks or VLAN IDs in a connection with multiple networks
With Virtual Connect v2.30 and higher, it is not necessary to power down a server blade with
•Changing a connection's network:
o From "unassigned" to a single network o From a single network to "unassigned" o From "unassigned" to multiple networks o From multiple networks to "unassigned"
•Changing the requested bandwidth
FCoE connection changes that require power down
•Adding an FCoE connection to an assigned server profile
•Removing an FCoE connection from an assigned server profile
•Assigning a profile containing FCoE connections to a server
•Changing FCoE boot parameters
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