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January 6th, 2010 07:00
How to connect AX150i SAN to a PE1855 blade configuration?
Hello,
I have a PE1855 bladeserver configuration with 1855 and 1955 blades.
The question is: What's best practice to connect these blades to an AX150i SAN?
For example: For me it's not clear how to connect nic1 of the blade to an internal network and connect nic2 of the blade to a SAN.
Kind regards,
Danny Lenaerts
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Dev Mgr
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January 7th, 2010 09:00
You blade chassis should either have 2 switches or 2 passthrough modules for the onboard NICs ('onboard' as in 'on the blade's motherboard'). One of these is for 1 NIC and the other for the other NIC.
If you have passthrough modules, connect a cable from the appropriate port to the switch you'll dedicate (and therefor isolate) for the iSCSI traffic. However, if you have switches in the blade chassis, you have to either fully dedicate that switch to iSCSI (would mean that other blades can no longer use it for LAN traffic if they are using it for that at this time), or create a vLAN with the appropriate internal port in the blade switch and 1 external port, and then connect that external port to your iSCSI switch.
dlenaerts
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January 8th, 2010 06:00
Thanx Dev Mgr for the info.
I shall give it a try.
dlenaerts
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January 11th, 2010 01:00
Indeed I've got 2 switches. But can these switches be managed separate from eachother?
When ik login onto the webinterface of a 5316M switch I think this is the left one. This one is configured with several VLAN's.
Is this also possible with the second switch? So I can create diffent VLAN's on the richt switch?
I don't see a possibility in the userguide to configure the second switch.
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January 11th, 2010 10:00
The 2 switches are unique and stand-alone. The other switch should have it's own (management) IP and should be able to have it's own VLANs.