HP XC System Software 3.2.1 manual Ethernet

Figure 2-9 External Network Connections: Half-Height Server Blades and NIC1 and NIC2 in Use

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2.6.3Configuring the External Network: Option 3 - Non Gigabit Ethernet Interconnect Clusters

The administration network requires only one network interface, NIC1, on clusters that do not use Gigabit Ethernet as the interconnect (that is, they use InfiniBand or the interconnect on the administration network).

On these non Gigabit Ethernet interconnect clusters, you have two configuration methods to configure an external network connection, and the option you choose depends on whether the collection of nodes requiring external connections includes half-height server blades.

•If only full height server blades require external connections, you can use NIC3 for the external network. This is similar to the way the external connection is configured in Figure 2-8 (page 42), and it saves the cost of an additional interconnect device in bay 2.

•If half-height server blades require external connections, you cannot use NIC3 because half height server blades do not have a third NIC. In this case, you must use NIC2 as the external connection as shown in Figure 2-8 (page 42). This configuration requires an Ethernet interconnect module to be present in bay 2.

Figure 2-8 (page 42) also shows the use of built-in NICs in the non-blade server nodes for the external connection, but this varies by hardware model.

If the hardware configuration contains non-blade server nodes, see Chapter 4 (page 59) for information about which port to use for the external network.

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